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Martin Luther

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Martin Luther
Age: 62 †
Born: 1483
Born: November 10
Died: 1546
Died: February 18
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The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.
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Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.
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Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
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A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
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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.
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One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
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Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.
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Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either
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I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
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You have as much laughter as you have faith.
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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.
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Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.
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What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?
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When schools flourish, all flourishes.
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
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A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.
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I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
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