Martin Luther Quotes
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The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?
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A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God.
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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
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It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do!
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His Mohammed, as has been said, commands that ruling is to be done by the sword, and in his Koran the sword is the commonest and noblest work. Thus the Turk is, in truth, nothing but a murderer or highwayman, as his deeds show before men’s eyes.
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Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
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If a woman becomes weary and at last dead from bearing, that matters not; let her only die from bearing, she is there to do it.
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Animals are footprints of God.
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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
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Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God-- Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart Whose Word cannot be broken. I'll trust in God's unchanging Word Till soul and body sever, For, though all things shall pass away, HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER!
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This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.
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God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.
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Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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God has formed the soul and body of the Virgin Mary full of the Holy Spirit, so that she is without all sins, for she has conceived and borne the Lord Jesus.
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The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
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I'll trust in God's unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.
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A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.
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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
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For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.
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If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
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What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.
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The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.
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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he God has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.