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• Teaching is of more importance than urging.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Teaching, Importance

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• When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Christ, Lord

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.40, Fortress Press

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• The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

  Martin Luther

  Earth, Abomination, Mass

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.69

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• I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Done, Accomplished

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Christian in society”

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• For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life.

  Martin Luther

  Baptism, Purpose, Innocence

  Martin Luther, Eugene F. A. Klug (1996). “Sermons of Martin Luther: The House Postils”, Baker Publishing Group

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• At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Principles, Moral

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• If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

  Martin Luther

  Kings, Giving Up, Office

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• Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Heart, Depth

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• In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.

  Martin Luther

  Struggle, Promise, May

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• Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Simple, Light

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• You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Children, Home

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• Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

  Martin Luther

  Wagers, Unseen, Goodness

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• Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Children, Father

  Martin Luther (1962). “The Christian in society”

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• Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Church, Want

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• The devil is God's ape!

  Martin Luther

  God, Devil, Apes

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• Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Serious, Christianity

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

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• The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Art, Secret

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• People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

  Martin Luther

  Moon, People, Heaven

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• To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.

  Martin Luther

  And Love, Next, Peace And Love

  "Conversations with Luther: Selections from Recently Published Sources of the Table Talk".

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• Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

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  Wine, Men, Abuse

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• We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

  Martin Luther

  Firsts, Sin, Good Work

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• And I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone. No, never alone. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Fighting, Voice

  "Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool". Delivered at Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, August 27, 1967.

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• No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.

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  Christian, Taken, People

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.6

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• Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you. This praise of work should be inscribed on all tools, on the forehead and the faces that sweat from toiling.

  Martin Luther

  Blessing, Sweat, Sacred

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• The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Men, Grace

  Martin Luther (2007). “Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year”, p.32, Hendrickson Publishers

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