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• Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Grace, Daring

  Martin Luther, J. Theodore Mueller (2003). “Commentary on Romans”, p.17, Kregel Publications

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• It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

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  Happiness, Heart, Aging

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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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  Girl, Christian, Abortion

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis”

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• Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

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  Spiritual, Struggle, Religion

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.164

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• Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?

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  Angel, Jewels, Noble

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

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  Wagers, Unseen, Goodness

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• Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

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  Political, Despair, Mountain

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• God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

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  Suffering, Crosses, Found

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.70, Fortress Press

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• For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life.

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  Baptism, Purpose, Innocence

  Martin Luther, Eugene F. A. Klug (1996). “Sermons of Martin Luther: The House Postils”, Baker Publishing Group

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• For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Heaven

  "Sermons".

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• What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.

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  Religious, Humor, Safe

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• Forgiveness is God's command.

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  Forgiveness, God, Healing

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• I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.

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  Divorce, Thinking, People

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• When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

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  Desire, Spirit, Changed

  Martin Luther (1823). “Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-will. First Pub. in the Year of Our Lord 1525”, p.60

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• Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

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  Church, Together, Matter

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• Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

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  Teacher, Serious, Christianity

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

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• One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

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  Education, Children, Study

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• To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

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  Heart, Grace, Peace With God

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• The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

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  Wise, Book, Simple

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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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  Jesus, Christ, Lord

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.40, Fortress Press

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• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

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  Self Confidence, Law, Ideas

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• The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

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  Religious, Humor, Devil

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• There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

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  Two, Calendars, Two Days

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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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  Thinking, Fire, Temptation

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.85, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.

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  Ghost, Holy, Masters

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.3

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