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• It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garmentBut even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Men, Quality

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• Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.

  Martin Luther

  Powerful, Devil, Mouths

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.22

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• Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Thinking, Imagination

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• Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Air

  Martin Luther, Jules Michelet (1846). “The Life of Luther”, p.326

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• What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Lying, Scary

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• Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

  Martin Luther

  Flower, Evolution, Smallest

  "Luther's Works: Table talk".

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• ... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Wrath, Mad

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.1050, Fortress Press

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• The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of mere gain.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Writing, Names

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• Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

  Martin Luther

  Loyalty, Soldier, Battle

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• Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

  Martin Luther

  Devil, Flesh, Etc

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• I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Mean, People

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• While we contemplate in all creatures, as in a mirror, those immense riches of His wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not meerly run them over cursorily, and, so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length, turn them over in our mind seriously and faithfully and recollect them repeatedly.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Mirrors, Justice

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• Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Failure, Men

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• It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?

  Martin Luther

  Education, Cheer, Fun

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• We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

  Martin Luther

  Running, Fighting, Justice

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• Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

  Martin Luther

  Evolution, Adam, Rejoice

  Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Martin Luther (1958). “Luther's Works, Volume 1 (Genesis Chapters 1-5)”, Concordia Pub House

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• I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Children, Humor

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

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• The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Doubt, Spirit

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• If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy.

  Martin Luther

  Choices, Needs, Spirit

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• We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Opportunity, Vaults

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• A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
  Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
  For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
  His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
  On earth is not his equal.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Crafts, Earth

  Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc

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• There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

  Martin Luther

  Earth, Reason, Danger

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• Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Animal

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• If the peasants are in open rebellion, then they are outside the law of God. Therefore let all who are able slash, strike down, and kill (those who rebel) openly and secretly, remembering that there can be nothing more venomous, harmful, or devilish than a rebel. It is exactly like killing a mad dog.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Law, Mad

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• A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Independent, Owing

  Martin Luther (1952). “The basis of the Protestant Reformation”

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