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• Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Mean, People

  Martin Luther (1987). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.356, Kregel Publications

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• Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Asking Questions, Doe

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• I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Evil

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• Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?

  Martin Luther

  Fall, Safety, Ark

  Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: free will and salvation”

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• He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world comprehends them not, from ignorance of that mortification which is the gift of God's word.

  Martin Luther

  Ignorance, Progress, World

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.4

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• God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.

  Martin Luther

  Evolution, Divine, Divine Nature

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• A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion of their heedless imaginations.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Writing, Imagination

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.80, Gideon House Books

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• Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Humble, Giving

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• The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away

  Martin Luther

  People, Use, World

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• It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

  Martin Luther

  Son, Imitation, Imitator

  "Lectures of Galatians, 1535".

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• Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.

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  Lying, Simple, Reality

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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Hurt, Humor

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• Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.

  Martin Luther

  Blessed, Men, Religion

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• The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

  Martin Luther

  Would Be, Sin, Righteous

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.54, Fortress Press

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• The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

  Martin Luther

  Hair, Mourning, Ornaments

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.307

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• Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.

  Martin Luther

  Race, Years, Wicked

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• Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Conscious, Turns

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

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• So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee.

  Martin Luther

  Fall, May, Sin

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• He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

  Martin Luther

  Names, Authority, Jew

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

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• A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

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  Wise, Religious, Humor

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• To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Soul, Christ

  Martin Luther “The Freedom of a Christian”, Lulu.com

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• Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Eye, Wish

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

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• Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

  Martin Luther

  Thieves, Pope, Crew

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• If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Fire, Doctors

  "To the Christian Nobility of the German States" by Martin Luther, 1520.

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• My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.

  Martin Luther

  Water, Scripture, Divine

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.3

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