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• It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.

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  Evolution, Almighty, All Things

  "Luther's Works: Word and sacrament".

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• An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

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  God, Spiritual, Angel

  "Martin Luther's Table Talk".

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• As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and does not utterly despair of himself, and so is not humbled before God. Such a man plans out for himself a position, an occasion, a work, which shall bring him final salvation, but which will not.

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  Men, Self, Long

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• Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

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  Song, Godly, Giving

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• I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.

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  Years, Giving, Joy

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• There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

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  Wise, Women, Gowns

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.367

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• God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

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  Men, Lost, Feels

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• Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.

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  Teacher, Augustine, Judgment

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Word and sacrament”

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• Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

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  Teaching, Doe, May

  "Luther's Works, Volume 39: Church and Ministry I" by by Helmut T. Lehman, edited by Eric W. Gritsch, Augsburg Fortress Press, (p. 249), 1986.

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• If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth

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  Lying, Cities, Mouths

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

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• Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow.

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  Faith, Temptation, Battle

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• Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and riches of his own faith.

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  Christian, Men, Joy

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas More, Martin Luther (2005). “Influential Thinkers of the Renaissance”, p.385, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.

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  Love, Children, Husband

  "Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis".

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• The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

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  Saving, Life Or Death, Casts

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• It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.

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  Blessing, Evil, Vineyards

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• If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.

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  Wise, Fighting, Silence

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• Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.

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  Farewell, Wrath, Dragons

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• If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

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  Wheat, Wonder, Grain

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• Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

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  Crowns, Virtue, Obedience

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• Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.

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  Giving, Promise, Castles

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• But the power of God cannot be so determined and measured, for it is uncircumscribed and immeasurable, beyond and above all that is or may be. On the other hand, it must be essentially present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf.

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  Tree, Evolution, Leafs

  "Works".

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• It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.

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  Men, Evil, Grace

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• In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.

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  Christian, Prayer, Order

  "What Luther says: an anthology".

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• what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

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  Mean, Choices, Rooms

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.323, Fortress Press

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• For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

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  Nature, Tree, Earth Day

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