Martin Luther Quotes
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It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.
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Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.
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We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.
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Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.
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Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.
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Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.
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The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.
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Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.
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God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.
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As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.
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God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.
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Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.
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Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.
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Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.
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Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.
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The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.
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Your thoughts of God are too human.
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No great saint lived without errors.
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Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.
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If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.