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• Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles... We are beggars: this is true.

  Martin Luther

  Years, Church, Baptists

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• Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

  Martin Luther

  War, Injustice, Armament

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

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• At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

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  Friday, Devil, Lasts

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious

  Martin Luther

  Ears, Hallelujah, Curse

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• Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

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  Animal, Joy, Evolution

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• I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

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  Education, Kindness, Book

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• No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Desire, Gowns

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• The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1872). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.369

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• The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.

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  Woods, Christ, Cradle

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• Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Praying, Kind

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.102

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• In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

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  Garden, Sowing, Digging

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

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• In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

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  God's Creation, Crafts, May

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• In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.

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  White, United States, Poverty

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• I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

  Martin Luther

  Lord, Plus, Stuck

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.5

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• I do not admit that my doctrine can be judged by anyone.

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  Doctrine, Judged

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• Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

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  Christian, Prayer, Men

  Martin Luther (1883). “First Principles of the Reformation, Or, The Ninety-five Theses and the Three Primary Works of Martin Luther”

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• Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.

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  Religious, Humor, Sweat

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• Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Mountain, Valleys

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?

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  Angel, Jewels, Noble

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

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• I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

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  War, Enemy, Breaking Silence

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• I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music

  Martin Luther

  Art, School, Men

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1872). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.340

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• Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.

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  Children, Teaching, Earth

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• Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.

  Martin Luther

  Next, Christianity, Praise

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

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• Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'

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  Jesus, Heart, Christ

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• What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.

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  Religious, Prayer, Book

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