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• Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Song, Men, Emotion

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• Thoughts are not subject to duty.

  Martin Luther

  Duty, Subjects

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• A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.

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  Lying, Snow, Balls

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• There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment

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  Two, Calendars, Today

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• We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

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  Religious, Humor, Years

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• The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.

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  Spirit, Ghost, Holy

  Martin Luther (1896). “Luther's primary works: together with his shorter and larger catechisms”

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• The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer & more certain than sense & life itself.

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  Heart, Doubt, Spirit

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• Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

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  Faith, Maids, Reason

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• If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

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  Heaven, Monk, Has Beens

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• Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

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  Christian, Religious, Humor

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• I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

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  Children, Pupils, Catechism

  Martin Luther (2012). “The Large Cathechism of Martin Luther”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

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  Prayer, Three, Each Day

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• The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

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  Faithful, Tasks, Treasure

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• A woman has no control over herself.

  Martin Luther

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• All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

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  Kings, Believe, Christ

  Martin Luther (2014). “Concerning Christian Liberty”, p.27, Trajectory Inc

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• We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

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  Religious, Lying, Humor

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• It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth.

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  Mean, Self, Heaven

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• If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

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  Wheat, Wonder, Grain

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• It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

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  Art, Men, Medicine

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1960). “Career of the Reformer”

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• We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

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• The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.

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  Long, Joy, Delight

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• That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk.

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  Character, Men, People

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.293

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• The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.

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  Heart, Bruises, Wheat

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.275

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• False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

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  Preacher, Virgins

  Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

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• For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

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  Evil, Church, Wickedness

  Colloquia Mensalia ch. 2 (1566) (translation by Henry Bell)

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