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Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.

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Martin Luther
Age: 62 †
Born: 1483
Born: November 10
Died: 1546
Died: February 18
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God can be found only in suffering and the cross.
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I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
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All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.
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If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
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When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.
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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.
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I should have no compassion on these witches I should burn them all.
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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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Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
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Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is there to do it.
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At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
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If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
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The less I pray, the harder it gets the more I pray, the better it goes.
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Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.
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It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.
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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.
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Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart he goes about with it night and day he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.
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Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
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