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• The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting place. They sit as on a wheelbarrow, without a country, people or government... but they are rightly served, for seeing they refused have Christ and his gospel, instead of freedom they must have servitude.

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  Country, Government, People

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• The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

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  Evil, Choices, Free Will

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• The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

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  Wife, Christian Women, Made

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• I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

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  Wife, Doe, Scripture

  Letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück (An Den Kanzler Brück), (January 13, 1524) in "Dr. Martin Luther's Briefe, Sendschreiben und Bedenken: volständig aus den verschiedenen Ausgaben seiner Werke und Briefe, aus andern Büchern und noch unbenutzten Handschriten gesammelt" by Martin Luther, 1825.

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• Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

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  New Year, Spiritual, Angel

  Martin Luther, “From Heaven Above To Earth I Come”

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• what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.

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  World, Fool, Return

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

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• I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order....when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction - to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon.

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  Love Is, Order, Weapons

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• Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.

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  Pope, Obedience, Antichrist

  "The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers" by LeRoy Edwin Froom, Vol. 2, (p. 121), 1950.

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• Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

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  Religious, Humor, Sight

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• When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

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  Peace, Ubuntu, Tree

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• Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

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  Drunk, Sides, Human Nature

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• The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.

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  Faith, Laughter, Heart

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• Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

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  Religious, Humor, Land

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• Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.

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  Angel, Wicked, Holy

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• Good news from heaven the angels bring,
  Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
  To us this day a child is given,
  To crown us with the joy of heaven.

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  Christmas, Children, Angel

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• So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

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  Effectiveness, Thought Provoking, Grows

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table talk”

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• Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness - this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain.

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  Healing, Mean, Law

  "The Freedom of a Christian" by Martin Luther, 1520.

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• The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

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  Wrath, Law, Grace

  Martin Luther (1962). “Early theological works”, London, S.C.M.,P

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• The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  Martin Luther (1830). “A Commentary on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.402

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• God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

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  Father, Spring, Heart

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• What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.

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  Christian, Strong, Lying

  Martin Luther, cited by his secretary, in a letter in Max Lenz, ed., "Briefwechsel Landgraf Philips des Grossmuthigen von Hessen mit Bucer", vol. 1; in "Lying: Moral Choice In Public and Private Life‎" by Sissela Bok, New York: Pantheon Books, (p. 47), 1978.

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• What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

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  Heaven, Needs, Mercy

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• The Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand, it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand, it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so the soul will have a chance after it is changed.

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  Christian, Men, Hands

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• He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.

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  Fall, Heart, Sight

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.9

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• When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.

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  Jesus, Names, Grace

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