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• There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

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  Dream, Religious, Humor

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• We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

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  Inspirational, Freedom, Winning

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• So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.

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  Religious, Eye, Angel

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• The confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust be right, then is your god also true; and, on the other hand, if your trust be false and wrong, then you have not the true God; for these two belong together faith and God. That now, I say, upon which you set your heart and put your trust is properly your god.

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  Heart, Hands, Idols

  Martin Luther (2012). “The Large Cathechism of Martin Luther”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

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  Choices, Scripture, Type

  Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

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  Egypt, Names, Creating

  Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another.

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  Faith, Suffering, Speak

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• How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

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  Girl, Religious, Humor

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.325

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• I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what's coming.

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  Men, Thinking, Ordinary

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Table talk”

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• If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake - if anyone set up its observance on a Jewish foundation, then I order you to work on it, to ride on it, to dance on it, to feast on it, to do anything that shall remove this encroachment on Christian liberty.

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  Christian, Order, Liberty

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• A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

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  Men, Grace, Sin

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• God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

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  Religious, Humor, Justice

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• from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

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  Ignorance, Erasmus, Matter

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.299, Fortress Press

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• No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.

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  Men, Hands, Church

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds.

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  Hurt, Dark, Past

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• Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage.

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  Devil, Doctrine, World

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.93, Gideon House Books

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• Let whatsoever will or can befall me, I will surely cleave by my sweet Savior Christ Jesus, for in Him am I baptized; I can neither do nor know anything but only what He has taught me.

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  Sweet, Jesus, Taught

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.146, Gideon House Books

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• Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides.

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  Kings, Dwelling Place, Heaven

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.24

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• Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

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  Law, Singing, Sorrow

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

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• No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

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  Would Be, Vehemence, Too Much

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• In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

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  Country, Religious, Humor

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

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• The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

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  Yield, Devil, Way

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• But then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!

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  Country, Religious, Forever

  "On the Jews and Their Lies". Book by Martin Luther, 1543.

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• Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.

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  Gratitude, Office, Temptation

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• When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

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  Hands, Giving, Poor

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.32

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