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• God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Justice

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• The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

  Martin Luther

  Yield, Devil, Way

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• Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

  Martin Luther

  Scary, Sacred Scripture, Earth

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• How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

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  Girl, Religious, Humor

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.325

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• I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what's coming.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Thinking, Ordinary

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Table talk”

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• A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Grace, Sin

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• We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Kings, Real

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• So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.

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  Religious, Eye, Angel

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• When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

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  Religious, Children, Humor

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• Then they began to say: 'Yes, but how can we know what is God's Word, and what is right or wrong? We must learn this from the Pope and the councils.' Very well then, let them conclude and say what they please, yet I will reply, you cannot put your confidence in that nor thus satisfy your conscience, for you must determine this matter yourself, for your very life depends upon it. Therefore God must speak to your heart: This is God's Word; otherwise you are undecided.

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  Heart, Matter, Speak

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• You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

  Martin Luther

  Choices, Scripture, Type

  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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• The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

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  Tree, Doe, Way

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.865, Fortress Press

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• At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.

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  Religious, Humor, Lakes

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

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• There is on earth among all dangers, no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroid reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an ass to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

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  Spiritual, Soul, Earth

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• The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Obedience, Fulfilled

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• How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

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  Hate, Sound, Reason

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• I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them.

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  Art, Opinion, Servant

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• However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.

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  Christian, Religious, Art

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

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• I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Believe, Christ

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.49

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• Whoso hearkens not to God's voice, is an idolator, though he perform the highest and most heavy service of God.

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  Voice, Heavy, Highest

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.72

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• O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.

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  Faith, Powerful, Creative

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.24, Anchor

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• He who knoweth and understandeth Christ's life, knoweth and understandeth Christ Himself; and in like manner, he who understandeth not His life, doth not understand Christ Himself. And he who believeth on Christ, believeth that His life is the best and noblest life that can be, and if a man believe not this, neither doth he believe on Christ Himself.

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  Believe, Men, Life Is

  Martin Luther (2013). “The Theologia Germanica of Martin Luther”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• [The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so childishly to toddle along the benches, nay, to creep in the mire, and cannot skip and dance, on such light feet and legs, over and outside of God's commandments, as they do, the strong heroes and giants ... God forbid that we should!

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  Christian, Sarcastic, Strong

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• God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.

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  Cows, Milk, Vocation

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• On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) [This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them.

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  Mother, Kings, Children

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