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• Christians are rare people on earth.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, People, Earth

  Martin Luther (1897). “On Trade and Usury: An Address”

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• I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

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  Lying, Compare, Snowball

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

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• What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?

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  Care, Young, Teach

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• Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.

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  Music, Skills, All Things

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• When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."

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  Blessed, Answers, Hell

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• Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.

  Martin Luther

  Latin, Simple, Doctors

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• Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

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  Boys, Men, Doctors

  Martin Luther (2007). “Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year”, p.43, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.

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  Writing, Appearance, Good Work

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.867, Fortress Press

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• Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.

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  Astrology, People, Office

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.343

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• In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

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  Religious, Humor, Lakes

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

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• Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

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  Color, Choices, Simplicity

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• The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

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  Religious, Book, Humor

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• All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear; how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.

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  Life, Hope, Spring

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• To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

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  Christian, Religious, Humor

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• Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

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  Scary, Sacred Scripture, Earth

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• Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.

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  Sleep, Healing, Long

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.316

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• I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

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  Long, Preacher, Preaching

  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.238

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• [It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject

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  Christian, Heart, Doe

  Martin Luther (2018). “The Bondage of the Will”, p.20, Ambassador International

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• A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.

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  Men, Heaven, Devil

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.18

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• The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the strongest sorts.

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  Heart, Opinion, Affirmation

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• Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Taught, Hell

  "Dr. Martin Luther's Sämtliche Werke" by Polemische Deutsche Schriften, Johann Konrad Irmischer, Erlangen, vol. 28, (p. 347), 1833.

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• The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.

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  Life, Heart, Power

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• We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him.

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  Flower, Fall, Might

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• When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

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  Religious, Children, Humor

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• We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.

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  Dream, Kings, Real

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