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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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Martin Luther
Age: 62 †
Born: 1483
Born: November 10
Died: 1546
Died: February 18
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The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
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The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.
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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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Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.
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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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Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.
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None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
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Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.
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Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.
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Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.
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Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.
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Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.
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If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
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women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.
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If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.
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It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.
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