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• In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Spring, Heart

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• The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Shine On, Light

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.84, Gideon House Books

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• Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Drinking, Wine

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• Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Money, Giving

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.45, Fortress Press

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• The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Believe, Errors

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• God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

  Martin Luther

  Feelings, Done, Want

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan, Helmut T. Lehmann (1955). “Works”

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• The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.

  Martin Luther

  Practice, Giving, Temptation

  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.3

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• The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

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  Understanding, Humanity, Flesh

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.79

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• A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

  Martin Luther

  Reading, Men, Doe

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

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• All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.

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  Grace, Scripture, Helping

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• If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Wisdom, Devil

  Martin Luther “Jesus, Remember Me: Words of Assurance from Martin Luther”, Augsburg Books

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• Great God, what do I see and hear!
  The end of things created!
  The judge of mankind doth appear
  On clouds of glory seated!
  The trumpet sounds; the graves restore,
  The dead which they contained before;
  Prepare, my soul, to meet Him!

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  Clouds, Judging, Soul

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• Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Single Child, Abortion

  Martin Luther (1962). “The Christian in society”

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• Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

  Martin Luther

  Hope, Done, Benefits

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.146

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• Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.

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  Strong, Children, Military

  Letter to the German rulers (1524) in "The History of Compulsory Education in New England" by John William Perrin, 1896.

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• To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him.

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  Heart, Spirit, Worship

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• Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk.

  Martin Luther

  Soul, Together, Body

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• If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Fire, Neglect

  Martin Luther (1885). “Luther's Table-talk”

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• Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is there to do it.

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  Children, Home, House

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• The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

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  Quests, Glory, Satisfied

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• I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

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  Music, Hate, Men

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• Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Judging, Faults

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• We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.

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  Forget, Beats, One Thing

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• Animals are footprints of God.

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  Animal, Evolution, Footprint

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• A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Fire, Devil

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.19

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