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• Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.

  Martin Luther

  Fulfillment, Command, Commandments

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• The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Men, Wrath

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• As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Shoes

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• The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Art, Secret

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• Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

  Martin Luther

  Family, Children, Apples

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• I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Neglect

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• We should die relying on grace alone

  Martin Luther

  Grace, Christianity, Should

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

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• I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Heaven, Hell

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• The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our bodies with misfortune and harm. Hence it comes that he often breaks men's necks or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites many to commit suicide, and to many other terrible calamities. Therefore there is nothing for us to do upon earth but to pray against this arch enemy without ceasing. For unless God preserved us, we would not be safe from him even for an hour.

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  Suicide, Liars, Suicidal

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• Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Children, Father

  Martin Luther (1962). “The Christian in society”

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• If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

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  Believe, Men, Scary

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• We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.

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  Believe, Hands, Sins Not

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Done, Accomplished

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Christian in society”

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• The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

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  Heart, Men, Grace

  Martin Luther (2007). “Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year”, p.32, Hendrickson Publishers

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• When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.

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  Mother, Wife, Style

  Martin Luther, Jules Michelet (1846). “The Life of Luther”, p.262

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• Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Wine, Thinking

  Martin Luther, Theodore G. Tappert (2003). “Luther: Letters of Spiritual Counsel”, p.86, Regent College Publishing

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• And I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone. No, never alone. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Fighting, Voice

  "Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool". Delivered at Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, August 27, 1967.

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• My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

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  Temptation, Divinity, Masters

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• Teaching is of more importance than urging.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Importance

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• We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

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  Firsts, Sin, Good Work

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

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  Prayer, Heart, Depth

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• No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Taken, People

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.6

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• This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.

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  Grace, Riches, Mystery

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• Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

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  Believe, Sin, Christ

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• In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.

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  Struggle, Promise, May

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