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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I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!
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Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
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If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
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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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The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.
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How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.
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In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.
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Each betrayal begins with trust.
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Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.
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'For He that is mighty hath done great things for me, and Holy is His Name' (Luke 1:49). Luther comments:
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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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I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music.
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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
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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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A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God.
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need.
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I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.
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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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Sin cannot tear you away from him Christ even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.
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There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment.
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It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.
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The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.