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• I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Children, Humor

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

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• We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Opportunity, Vaults

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• Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Failure, Men

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• If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy.

  Martin Luther

  Choices, Needs, Spirit

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• While we contemplate in all creatures, as in a mirror, those immense riches of His wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not meerly run them over cursorily, and, so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length, turn them over in our mind seriously and faithfully and recollect them repeatedly.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Mirrors, Justice

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• Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

  Martin Luther

  Justice, Lasts, Ends

  "On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

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• If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

  Martin Luther

  God's Creation, Evolution, Aspect

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• Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Sweet, Harmony

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• For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.

  Martin Luther

  Character, Devil, Goes On

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• The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Blood, Temptation

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• We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Leaving, Undone

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

  Martin Luther

  Blow, Taught, Behinds

  "The Great Catechism". Book by Martin Luther, Second Command, 1529.

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• women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

  Martin Luther

  Girl, Checks, Behinds

  "To His Housewife" (An Seine Hausfrau), end of July 1545 in "Dr. Martin Luthers Briefe, sendschreiben und bedenken: vollständig aus den verschiedenen ausgaben seiner werke und briefe, aus andern büchern und noch unbenutzen handschriften gesammelt" by Martin Luther, Volume 5, p. 753, (No. MMCCLXXXVI), 1828.

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• It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

  Martin Luther

  Order, People, Church

  "Luther". Book by Hartmann Grisar, vol. 4, p. 126, 1915.

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• God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

  Martin Luther

  Perfection, Celibacy, Creation

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• Though in midst of life we be
  Snares of death surround us.

  Martin Luther

  Death, Midst, Snares

  Martin Luther (1854). “Martin Luther's Spiritual Songs”, p.80

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• I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Religious, Humor

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• God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Dust, Devil, Ashes

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.48

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• As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Son, Giving

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

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• Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.

  Martin Luther

  Evil, Wish, Church

  "Dictata super Psalterium (Dictations on the Psalter)" in "D. Martin Luthers Werke: kritische Gesamtausgabe" by Herman Bohlau Weimar, Volume 3, (p. 445), 1883.

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• The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

  Martin Luther

  Mad, Doe, Different

  "Whether Soldiers Can Also Be in a State of Grace". Book by Martin Luther, 1526.

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• I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

  Martin Luther

  May, Follow Me, Preaching

  Martin Luther (2012). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Stoves

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• I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

  Martin Luther

  Usual, Today, Praying

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• Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.

  Martin Luther

  Angel, Office, Would Be

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.246

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