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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? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he [God] has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.

  Martin Luther

  Stars, Wine, Beer

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• It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

  Martin Luther

  Hypocrite, Doe, Causes

  Martin Luther, Hilton C. Oswald (1973). “Luther's works: Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 7, 1 Corinthians 15 ; lectures on Timothy / Hilton C. Oswald, editor”, Concordia Pub House

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• Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.

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  Heart, Giving, Doe

  Martin Luther (1956). “The sermon on the mount and the magnificat”

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• Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.

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  Giving, Doe, World

  J. I. Packer, Martin Luther, O. R. Johnston (1990). “Bondage of the Will, The”, Revell

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• The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

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  Faithful, Tasks, Treasure

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• It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Men, Medicine

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1960). “Career of the Reformer”

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• We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

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  Religious, Lying, Humor

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• God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.

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  Forgiving, Satisfaction, Confession

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• We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

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  Strong, Drinking, Food

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• False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

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  Preacher, Virgins

  Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

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• The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.

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  Long, Joy, Delight

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• Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

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  Fruit, Failing, Heard

  Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Martin Luther (1841). “Life of Martin Luther”, p.165

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• Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.

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  Scripture, Christ, Masters

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• I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Heart, Would Be

  Martin Luther (1823). “Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-will. First Pub. in the Year of Our Lord 1525”, p.5

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• Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics eases and all things seem to be at peace.

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  Hypocrite, Ease, Messages

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• The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

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  Devil, Tunes, Should

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• If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.

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  Believe, Joy, Angry

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• A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.

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  Music, Doe, Ass

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• In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!

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  Easter, Voice, Singing

  Martin Luther, “In The Bonds Of Death He Lay”

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• Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

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  Fighting, Devil, Monsters

  Quoted in Vincent Cronin The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969).

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• Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.

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  Desire, Speak, Christ

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.97

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• The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.

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  Spirit, Ghost, Holy

  Martin Luther (1896). “Luther's primary works: together with his shorter and larger catechisms”

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• A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

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  Failing, Fortresses, Prevailing

  Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc

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• Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

  Martin Luther

  Men, Alcohol, Sides

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• Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.

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  Drink, Loving God, Gods Will

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