Martin Luther Quotes
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.
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Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.
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Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.
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Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?
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Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.
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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.
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We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
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At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.
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Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing.
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God can be found only in suffering and the cross.
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Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.
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A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.
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As long as we live there is never enough singing.
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...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.
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Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.
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We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.
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No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.
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How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don't notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam, but this was nothing in Adam's eyes; he was concerned about one tree and had to ask why God had forbidden him to eat it.
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The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.
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Every evening brings us nearer God.
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The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.
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Wer anders lehret, denn ich hierinn gelehret hab, oder mich darinn verdammt, der verdamt Gott, und muß ein Kind der Höllen bleiben.