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• Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.

  Martin Luther

  Race, Honor, Important

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• A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.

  Martin Luther

  Issues, Deals

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• The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Proud, Brokenhearted

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• The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Character, Men

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• God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of Another -- God alone.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Effort, Grace

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• God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

  Martin Luther

  Nature, Stars, Flower

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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?

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Children, Teaching

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• It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do!

  Martin Luther

  Bother, Knows

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

  Martin Luther

  Comfort, Satan, Christ

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• We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

  Martin Luther

  Deeds, Made, Righteous

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• Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Heart, Climbing

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• The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Darkness, Church

  Martin Luther (2009). “Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional”, p.182, Zondervan

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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.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Powerful, Believe

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• Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Meat, Looks

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• God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Want, Praying

  Martin Luther (2009). “Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional”, p.238, Zondervan

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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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• It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Religion, Neighbor

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• The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Scripture, Reason

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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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• 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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• To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

  Attributed in "Talking it over" by George Sweeting, (p. 88), September 1, 1979.

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• If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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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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• Pray, and let God worry.

  Martin Luther

  Trust, Encouraging, Hope

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1975). “Letters”

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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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