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• Put thou thy trust in God;
  In duty's path go on;
  Fix on His word thy steadfast eye;
  So shall thy work be done.

  Martin Luther

  Eye, Done, Goes On

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• Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful to me than before. Then I will properly appreciate the sun, the moon, the stars, trees, apples, as I reflect that he is Lord over all things. ...God writes the Gospel, not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

  Martin Luther

  Beautiful, Stars, Believe

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• Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Song, Men, Emotion

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• Your God is altogether too human.

  Martin Luther

  Humans

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• How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don't notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam, but this was nothing in Adam's eyes; he was concerned about one tree and had to ask why God had forbidden him to eat it.

  Martin Luther

  Eye, Giving, Tree

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Church, Firsts

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• Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

  Martin Luther

  Promise, Mind, Riches

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• The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Community, Purity

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• We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.

  Martin Luther

  Grace, Bones, Weary

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.8, Lulu.com

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• We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Dark, Night

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

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• It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Praying, Hard

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• The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Grace, Consent

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• In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Too Much, Scripture

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia Publishing House

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• But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Law, Grace

  "A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians".

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• Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Have Faith

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• To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Mean, Eye

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.26, Lulu.com

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• The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Blood, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 468, 1895.

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• Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Brother, Children

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• Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Jesus, Children

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• Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

  Martin Luther

  Truth, Begging You, Hypocrisy

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.25

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• I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

  Martin Luther

  Hands, Choices, Wish

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.350, Fortress Press

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• People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  Martin Luther

  Education, People, Principles

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• For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

  Martin Luther

  Evil, Church, Wickedness

  Colloquia Mensalia ch. 2 (1566) (translation by Henry Bell)

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• If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

  Martin Luther

  Heaven, Monk, Has Beens

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• The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times

  Martin Luther

  Home, Tables, Rooms

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