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• If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

  Martin Luther

  God's Creation, Evolution, Aspect

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• If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.

  Martin Luther

  Land, People, Jerusalem

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• A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

  Martin Luther

  War, Tyrants, Wicked

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• A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Teaching, Writing

  John Calvin, Martin Luther (1991). “Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.

  Martin Luther

  Evil, Wish, Church

  "Dictata super Psalterium (Dictations on the Psalter)" in "D. Martin Luthers Werke: kritische Gesamtausgabe" by Herman Bohlau Weimar, Volume 3, (p. 445), 1883.

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• I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

  Martin Luther

  May, Follow Me, Preaching

  Martin Luther (2012). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

  Martin Luther

  Blow, Taught, Behinds

  "The Great Catechism". Book by Martin Luther, Second Command, 1529.

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• No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

  Martin Luther

  Adversity, Men, Suffering

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.270

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• God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

  Martin Luther

  Perfection, Celibacy, Creation

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• The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Blood, Temptation

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• For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.

  Martin Luther

  Character, Devil, Goes On

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• Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.

  Martin Luther

  Angel, Office, Would Be

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.246

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• As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

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  Religious, Humor, Devil

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• We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Leaving, Undone

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

  Martin Luther

  Order, People, Church

  "Luther". Book by Hartmann Grisar, vol. 4, p. 126, 1915.

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• It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

  Martin Luther

  Night, Men, Giving

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• The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

  Martin Luther

  Mad, Doe, Different

  "Whether Soldiers Can Also Be in a State of Grace". Book by Martin Luther, 1526.

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• God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing.

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  Dust, Devil, Ashes

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.48

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• I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Religious, Humor

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• women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

  Martin Luther

  Girl, Checks, Behinds

  "To His Housewife" (An Seine Hausfrau), end of July 1545 in "Dr. Martin Luthers Briefe, sendschreiben und bedenken: vollständig aus den verschiedenen ausgaben seiner werke und briefe, aus andern büchern und noch unbenutzen handschriften gesammelt" by Martin Luther, Volume 5, p. 753, (No. MMCCLXXXVI), 1828.

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• I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Stoves

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• Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

  Martin Luther

  Justice, Lasts, Ends

  "On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

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• I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

  Martin Luther

  Change, War, Reality

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• The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Spiritual, Sacrifice

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• As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Son, Giving

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

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