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• The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

  Martin Luther

  Saving, Life Or Death, Casts

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• A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, 4th Of July, Lord

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.53, Anchor

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• Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

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  Prayer, Powerful, Tied

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.158

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• Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy, to him be power and authority for ever and ever.

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  Hope, Fall, Dark

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• That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

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  Stars, Sleep, Caring

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• The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?

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  People, Rose, Enemy

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• The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

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  Art, Lying, Religion

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• It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.

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  Blessing, Evil, Vineyards

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• Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

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  Education, Attention, Done

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

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• The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

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  Church, Going To Church, Irony

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• This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from eternal death. It is His kingdom and His ministry, to preach the Gospel to the poor; that is His purpose. For to the great and holy He cannot come. They do not wish to be counted sinners, and therefore do not need His Gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Suffering

  Martin Luther “Day by Day We Magnify You: Daily Readings for the Entire Year”, Augsburg Books

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• I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

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  Reading, Writing, Practice

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• When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Heaven, Mouths

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.101

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• A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out.

  Martin Luther

  Pennies, Saved, Paid

  "What Luther Says". Book by Martin Luther, Section on "Life, Human," No. 2438, 1959.

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• The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

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  Prayer, Believe, Exercise

  Martin Luther (2002). “Commentary on Galatians, Luther”, p.158, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.

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  Father, Wrath, World

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• Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.

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  Prayer, Long, Trying

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• I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.

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  Memories, Believe, Book

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.1

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• Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'

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  Jesus, Heart, Christ

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• Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.

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  Art, Women, Abode

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• Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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  Military, Moving, Blood

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• The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

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  Soul, Want, Word Of God

  Martin Luther (2014). “Concerning Christian Liberty”, p.20, Trajectory Inc

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• Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.

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  Waiting, Shapes, Hebrew

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• There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

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  Wisdom, Truth, Ideas

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• What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.

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  Prayer, Thinking, Firsts

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