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• Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Wrath, World

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• When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Heaven, Mouths

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.101

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• Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

  Martin Luther

  Song, Wine, Long

  Attributed; written in the Luther room in the Wartburg, but no proof exists of its authorship

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• The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Mentor, Frogs

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

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• What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Thinking, Firsts

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• We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, " If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Long, May

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• The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.

  Martin Luther

  Upset, Earth, Scripture

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• The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Believe, Exercise

  Martin Luther (2002). “Commentary on Galatians, Luther”, p.158, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

  Martin Luther

  Military, Moving, Blood

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• Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

  Martin Luther

  Church, Matter, Individual

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• As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

  Martin Luther

  Yield, Wind, Touching

  Martin Luther, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Samuel Simon Schmucker (1860). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.215

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• Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Children, Pain

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

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• The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

  Martin Luther

  Soul, Want, Word Of God

  Martin Luther (2014). “Concerning Christian Liberty”, p.20, Trajectory Inc

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• I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Compassion

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• All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Praying, Heard

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• There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

  Martin Luther

  Wisdom, Truth, Ideas

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• Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst.

  Martin Luther

  Ifs

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• God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Despair, Devil

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.72, Gideon House Books

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• Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

  Martin Luther

  Exercise, May, Doe

  Martin Luther (1896). “Luther's Primary Works: Together with His Shorter and Larger Catechisms”

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• I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

  Martin Luther

  Hypocrite, Cutting, Fighting

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• Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.

  Martin Luther

  Holy

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• Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Law, Liberty

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

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• It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Christian, Book

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• If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.

  Martin Luther

  Anger, Effort, Would Be

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• Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they in
  comparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Blessed, Thinking

  Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.109

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