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• To progress is always to begin always to begin again

  Martin Luther

  Progress, Begin Again

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• When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

  Martin Luther

  Anger, Writing, Temptation

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• In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.

  Martin Luther

  Writing, Beer, Loss

  Martin Luther (1967). “Selected Writings of Martin Luther: 1520 523”

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• The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

  Martin Luther

  Sex, Science, Should Have

  Table Talk 'Of Marriage and Celibacy'

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

  Martin Luther

  Offense, Tumult

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• Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in disguise.

  Martin Luther

  Fire, Blood, Evil

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• Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.

  Martin Luther

  Greatness, People, Giving

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• Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favour that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Grace, Risk

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• We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Judging, Scripture

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.2

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• Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.

  Martin Luther

  Break Out, Good Work, Believer

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• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

  Martin Luther

  Self Confidence, Law, Ideas

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• How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

  Martin Luther

  Girl, Christian, Abortion

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis”

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• For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you.

  Martin Luther

  Sleep, Thinking, Heaven

  "Sermons".

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• It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

  Martin Luther

  Happiness, Heart, Aging

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• Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

  Martin Luther

  Father, Son, Men

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• A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.

  Martin Luther

  War, Safe, Weapons

  'Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott' (1529) translation by Thomas Carlyle

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• I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.

  Martin Luther

  World, Failing, Hell

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.18

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• It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Strong, People

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Medicine, Helping

  "The place of trust: Martin Luther on the Sermon on the mount".

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• Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?

  Martin Luther

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.4

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• It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.

  Martin Luther

  Morning, Prayer, Lasts

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• If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Hands, Wish

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Faults

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• The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Book, Simple

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• It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

  Martin Luther

  Fire, Shining, Burning

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