Martin Luther Quotes
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Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.
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For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.
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Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.
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Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
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The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
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This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.
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Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.
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Dieser yrthum von freyen willen ist eyn eygen Artickel des Endchrist.
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First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
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Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.
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There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
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Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
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Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?
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If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.
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Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.
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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
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When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
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The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
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In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.
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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
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The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
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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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He Christ died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.