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• The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Scripture, Reason

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• I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Way, Guides

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• God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.

  Martin Luther

  Promise, Attention, Pay

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• The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Proud, Brokenhearted

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• The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Special, Treasure

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.112, Gideon House Books

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• A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

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  Lying, Bigger, Snowball

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• People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.

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  Heart, People, Three

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• It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.

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  Should Have, Principles, Three

  Martin Luther (1885). “Luther's Table-talk”

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• Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

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  Hair, Bird, Temptation

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• No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

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  Men, Scripture, Crosses

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.25

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  There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

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• I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

  Martin Luther

  Taught, Word Of God

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• This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.

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  Strong, Lying, Men

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• This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Trials, Forget

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.35, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

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  Strange, Sin, Saved

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• I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now.

  Martin Luther

  Children, People, Doe

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.100, Fortress Press

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• Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

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  Death, Faith, Loneliness

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• God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.

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  Doe, Attractive, Sinner

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• He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

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  Sin, Christ, Made

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• For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Biblical, Years

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal.

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  Worship Service, Worship, Organs

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• Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Lambs, Want

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

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  Soul, Saint, Earth

  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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• It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.

  Martin Luther

  Morning, Prayer, Thinking

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• The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Evil, Grace

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