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• Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Suffering

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.252

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• The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Rain, Fall

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.298

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• Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"

  Martin Luther

  Heaven, Christianity, Luther

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• When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Anger, Praying

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• The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

  Martin Luther

  Leadership, Courage, Rate

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• Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

  Martin Luther

  Ambition, Captivity, Pope

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.220

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• [Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

  Martin Luther

  Father, People, Church

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• All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

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  Grace, Abiding, May

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• If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.

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  World, Fisherman, Ifs

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• In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

  Martin Luther

  Hope, Another Life, Consolation

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• Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.

  Martin Luther

  Special, Speech, Force

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.22

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• Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.

  Martin Luther

  Ghost, Holy, Mankind

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.121

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• Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Tears, Adultery

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• A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Religious, Humor

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• At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

  Martin Luther

  Friday, Devil, Lasts

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious

  Martin Luther

  Ears, Hallelujah, Curse

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• Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

  Martin Luther

  War, Injustice, Armament

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

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• I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Kindness, Book

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• Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

  Martin Luther

  Animal, Joy, Evolution

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• The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.

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  Woods, Christ, Cradle

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• In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

  Martin Luther

  God's Creation, Crafts, May

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• In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

  Martin Luther

  Garden, Sowing, Digging

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

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• Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Praying, Kind

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.102

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• In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.

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  White, United States, Poverty

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• I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

  Martin Luther

  Lord, Plus, Stuck

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.5

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