Martin Luther Quotes

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

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, God, Religious

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Humility, Long, World

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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.

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  Life, God, Christian

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• A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

  Martin Luther

  Miserable, Ass, Fart

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• I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Children, Heart

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

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christian, Becoming

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• Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Show Me, Shows

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• You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

  Martin Luther

  Responsibility, Responsible, Inspirational Kindness

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

  Martin Luther

  Simple, Scripture, Pope

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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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• May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Believe, Church

  Martin Luther “Day by Day We Magnify You: Daily Readings for the Entire Year”, Augsburg Books

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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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• Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

  Martin Luther

  Hair, Bird, Temptation

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  The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

  Martin Luther

  Drink, Fountain, Remarkable

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Suffering, Religion

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Music, God

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