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If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

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Martin Luther
Age: 62 †
Born: 1483
Born: November 10
Died: 1546
Died: February 18
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Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.
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Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.
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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.
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The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness.
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[It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject
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Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.
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