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• When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Names, Grace

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• The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Believe, Errors

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• The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.

  Martin Luther

  Practice, Giving, Temptation

  Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.3

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• In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Spring, Heart

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• He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.

  Martin Luther

  Fall, Heart, Sight

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.9

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• Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Money, Giving

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.45, Fortress Press

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• Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Single Child, Abortion

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

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• If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Fire, Neglect

  Martin Luther (1885). “Luther's Table-talk”

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• I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Hate, Men

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• We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Air

  Martin Luther (1904). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”

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• Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

  Martin Luther

  Hope, Done, Benefits

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.146

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• Great God, what do I see and hear!
  The end of things created!
  The judge of mankind doth appear
  On clouds of glory seated!
  The trumpet sounds; the graves restore,
  The dead which they contained before;
  Prepare, my soul, to meet Him!

  Martin Luther

  Clouds, Judging, Soul

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• A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

  Martin Luther

  Reading, Men, Doe

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

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• The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

  Martin Luther

  Quests, Glory, Satisfied

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• We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.

  Martin Luther

  Forget, Beats, One Thing

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• A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Fire, Devil

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.19

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• Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Judging, Faults

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• Animals are footprints of God.

  Martin Luther

  Animal, Evolution, Footprint

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• God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

  Martin Luther

  Father, Doe, Have Faith

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.58, Anchor

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• The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more, that we let God alone work in us and that we do nothing of our own with all our powers.

  Martin Luther

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Trade

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.57, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  Martin Luther (2007). “Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year”, p.412, Hendrickson Publishers

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• When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

  Martin Luther

  Angel, Past, History

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan, Helmut T. Lehmann (1955). “Works”

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• Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.

  Martin Luther

  Forever, Grace, Overcoming

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.8, Lulu.com

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• When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: 'Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!' And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Heart, Names

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• This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

  Martin Luther

  Church, Doctrine, Hours

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

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