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• It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

  Martin Luther

  Night, Men, Giving

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• A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Teaching, Writing

  John Calvin, Martin Luther (1991). “Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

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  War, Tyrants, Wicked

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• No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

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  Adversity, Men, Suffering

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.270

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• If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.

  Martin Luther

  Land, People, Jerusalem

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• The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Spiritual, Sacrifice

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• Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

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  Thinking, Sin, Guilty

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• Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

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  Should, Teach, Our Family

  Martin Luther (1961). “Martin Luther, selections from his writings”, Anchor Books

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• Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.

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  Art, Fall, Giving

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.3

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• The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

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  Religious, Taken, Humor

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.328

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• The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

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  Religious, Humor, Men

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• Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

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  Dog, Children, Parent

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.

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  Children, Effort, Church

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.

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  Thinking, Years, America

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• Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.

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  Law, Justified, Holy

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

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• The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

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  Religious, Humor, Wind

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

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• Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

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  Letters, Lord, Print

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• What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice: First, that one should set fire to their synagogues. . . . Then that one should also break down and destroy their houses. . . . That one should drive them out the country.

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  Christian, Country, Fire

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• Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.

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  Spiritual, Baptism, Stubborn

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• Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.

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  Mother, Christianity, Lord

  Martin Luther (1948). “The Martin Luther Christmas Book”

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• First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

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  Encouragement, Fall, Apples

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• The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

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  Dog, Heaven, Empires

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• Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving

  Martin Luther (1816). “Special and chosen sermons of D. M. Luther, collected out of his writings ... Englished by W. G(ace). B.L.”, p.137

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• Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

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  Men, Sheep, May

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• I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word of mouth concerning this treasure, sealing it with the Sacrament of my body and blood, so that you need never doubt. True, it seems little and insignificant that by the washing of water, the Word, and the Sacrament this should all be effected. But don't let your eyes deceive you.

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  Eye, Blood, Water

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