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• It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

  Martin Luther

  Hands, Body, Servant

  Martin Luther (1967). “The Christian in society”

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• There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

  Martin Luther

  Earth, Reason, Danger

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• As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Devil

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• It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that it is respected by those who are in his charge. Moreoever, it is the duty of a faithful minister not to exceed his powers and not to abuse his office in pride, but, rather, to administer it for the benefit of his subjects.

  Martin Luther

  Pride, Office, Faithful

  Martin Luther (1961). “Lectures on Romans”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

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  Change, War, Reality

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• All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear; how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.

  Martin Luther

  Life, Hope, Spring

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• When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."

  Martin Luther

  Blessed, Answers, Hell

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• I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Compare, Snowball

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

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• Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

  Martin Luther

  Color, Choices, Simplicity

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• Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Singing, Sorrow

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1872). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.340

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• The confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust be right, then is your god also true; and, on the other hand, if your trust be false and wrong, then you have not the true God; for these two belong together faith and God. That now, I say, upon which you set your heart and put your trust is properly your god.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Hands, Idols

  Martin Luther (2012). “The Large Cathechism of Martin Luther”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides.

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  Kings, Dwelling Place, Heaven

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.24

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• God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Errors, Lord

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.300

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• The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Devil, Overcoming

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.19

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• If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake - if anyone set up its observance on a Jewish foundation, then I order you to work on it, to ride on it, to dance on it, to feast on it, to do anything that shall remove this encroachment on Christian liberty.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Order, Liberty

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• In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

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  Religious, Humor, Lakes

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

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• Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Taught, Hell

  "Dr. Martin Luther's Sämtliche Werke" by Polemische Deutsche Schriften, Johann Konrad Irmischer, Erlangen, vol. 28, (p. 347), 1833.

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• The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the strongest sorts.

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  Heart, Opinion, Affirmation

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• Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

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  Egypt, Names, Creating

  Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him.

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  Flower, Fall, Might

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• What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

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  Strong, Lying, Men

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• But then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!

  Martin Luther

  Country, Religious, Forever

  "On the Jews and Their Lies". Book by Martin Luther, 1543.

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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds.

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  Hurt, Dark, Past

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• [It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Heart, Doe

  Martin Luther (2018). “The Bondage of the Will”, p.20, Ambassador International

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• Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.

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  Gratitude, Office, Temptation

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