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• Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

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  Math, Medicine, People

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• Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.

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  Majority

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• The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

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  Offense, Tumult

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• At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

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  Morning, Sleep, Heart

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• The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word' in faith and love, and not the 'mere hearers,' who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.

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  Expression, Practice, And Love

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• The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

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  Heart, Men, Depth

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• The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

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  Prayer, Praying, Harder

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• If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.

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  Men, Devil, Ifs

  Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.60

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• For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need

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  Giving, Needs, Christianity

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• God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

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  Men

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• For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

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  Bible, Biblical, Years

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• God may delay, but He always comes.

  Martin Luther

  Delay, May

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• Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

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  Christian, Prayer, Fighting

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• My dear pope, I will kiss your feet and acknowledge you as supreme bishop if you will worship my Christ and grant that through His death and resurrection, not through keeping your traditions, we have forgiveness of sins and life eternal.

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  Kissing, Acknowledge You, Feet

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• Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

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  Christian, Get Well, Mean

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• Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

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  Jesus, Dying, Scripture

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• Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

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  Death, Faith, Loneliness

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• Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.

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  Riches, Merit, Latter

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.

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  Safe, Helping, Honest

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• In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.

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  Book, Light, Evil

  Martin Luther (1848). “The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther”, p.2

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• Beer is made by men, wine by God.

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  Drinking, Wine, Beer

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• Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

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  World, Causes, Misery

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• When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

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  Jesus, Have Faith, Action

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• Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

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  People, Needs, Mouths

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• The cross alone is our theology.

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  Crosses, Theology

  Martin Luther (1903). “The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther, the Hero of the Reformation, the Greatest of the Teuton Church Fathers, and the Father of Protestant Church Literature. Based on the Kaiser Chronological Ed. with Reference to the Erlangen and Walch Eds”

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