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I have got so much to do today that I need to spend another hour on my knees praying. (Martin Luther)
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking will never accomplish anything. View quote
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If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words I baptize thee in the name of Abraham. View quote
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All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself. View quote
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Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and ve. View quote
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It is pleasing to God whenever thou rejoices or laughest from the bottom of thy heart. View quote
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The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it it breaks his teeth. View quote
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Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in d. View quote
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Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. View quote
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To do so no more is the truest repentance. View quote
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Teaching is of more importance than urging. (Martin Luther)
Sin is essentially a departure from God. View quote
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We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist. View quote
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Christian life consists of faith and charity. View quote
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Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief. View quote
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Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death. View quote
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Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say. View quote
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Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favour that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace. View quote
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Some plague the people with too long sermons for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. View quote
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The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared. View quote
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Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness. (Martin Luther)
There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather. View quote
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Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money. View quote
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Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven. View quote
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When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor. View quote
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