Martin Luther Quotes

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• Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

  Martin Luther

  Funny, Drinking, Sleep

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• Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

  Martin Luther

  Safe, Scripture, Helping

  1521 Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of Worms, 18 Apr.

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• From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Fall, Angel

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  God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

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  Inspirational, God, Religious

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• The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christian, People

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• I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

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  Inspirational, Music, God

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• Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Might, Sin

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• Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Done, Praying

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• God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

  Martin Luther

  Humility, Long, World

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• A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

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  Faith, Christian, Becoming

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• A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

  Martin Luther

  Miserable, Ass, Fart

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• I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

  Martin Luther

  Life, God, Christian

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• Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

  Martin Luther

  People, Forget, Week

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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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  Prayer, Powerful, Believe

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• The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

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  Christian, Children, Teaching

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• We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.

  Martin Luther

  Needs, Forget, Forget It

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  We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

  Martin Luther

  Growing, Process, Finished

  Martin Luther (1943). “Works of Martin Luther”

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• We must make a great difference between God's Word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth, yea, greater than death and hell, for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Air, Differences

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.20

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• When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.

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  Comfort, Satan, Christ

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• A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

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  Giving, Suffering, Religion

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  Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

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• A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it

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  Simple, Scripture, Pope

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• Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

  Martin Luther

  Loyalty, Kindness, Generosity

  Martin Luther “Jesus, Remember Me: Words of Assurance from Martin Luther”, Augsburg Books

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• The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Hands, Grace

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• The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Religious, Prayer

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