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The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

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Martin Luther
Age: 62 †
Born: 1483
Born: November 10
Died: 1546
Died: February 18
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The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.
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He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair the voice of heaven no longer sustains him he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.
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First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
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Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.
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He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
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The devil is God's ape!
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Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
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Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.
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Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.
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