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• The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Good Love, Two

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• False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

  Martin Luther

  Preacher, Virgins

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

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• I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

  Martin Luther

  Wife, Doe, Scripture

  Letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück (An Den Kanzler Brück), (January 13, 1524) in "Dr. Martin Luther's Briefe, Sendschreiben und Bedenken: volständig aus den verschiedenen Ausgaben seiner Werke und Briefe, aus andern Büchern und noch unbenutzten Handschriten gesammelt" by Martin Luther, 1825.

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• ...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

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  Evil, Overcoming, Anticipation

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.146

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

  Martin Luther

  Evil, Church, Wickedness

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

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• Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Eight, World

  Luther, Martin (2000). “The Complete Sermons of Martin Luther: Volume 4”, p.309, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

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  Love, Marriage, Sentimental

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• The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came to us in our flesh, laid himself into the womb of his mother and into the manger and went on to the cross. This was the ladder that he placed on earth so that we might ascend to God on it. This is the way you must take.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Humility, Son

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• For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Heaven, Doe

  Martin Luther (1961). “Lectures on Romans”, p.4, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.

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  Christ, Remove

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• The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

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  Wife, Christian Women, Made

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• Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

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• Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.

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  Desire, Speak, Christ

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.97

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• I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Heart, Would Be

  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.5

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• All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.

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  Children, Struggle, Home

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• Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Music Is, Gift From God

  Martin Luther (1818). “The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell”, p.428

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• The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

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  Christian, Community, Purity

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• A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

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  Men, Squares, Law

  Letter from a Birmingham Jail, www.africa.upenn.edu. April 16, 1963.

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• We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

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  Heart, Dark, Night

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

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• For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

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  Men, Hair, Heaven

  Martin Luther (1989). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• This letter [to the Romans] is truly the most important piece in the New Testament. It is purest Gospel. It is well worth a Christian's while not only to memorize it word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul. It is impossible to read or to meditate on this letter too much or too well. The more one deals with it, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes.

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  Christian, Soul, Important

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• Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics eases and all things seem to be at peace.

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  Hypocrite, Ease, Messages

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• I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Two, Today

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• When I am assailed with heavy tribulations, I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. 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. So the human heart, unless it be occupied with some employment, leaves space for the devil, who wriggles himself in and brings with him a whole host of evil thoughts, temptations, and tribulations, which grind out the heart.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Space, Pigs

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

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• Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

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  Prayer, Let Me, Fewer

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