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The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists these, though good and necessary to life here below, are vain and of no effect as to what concerns the life eternal.

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Martin Luther
Age: 62 †
Born: 1483
Born: November 10
Died: 1546
Died: February 18
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Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.
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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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Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, I want only you
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I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.
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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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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
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The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.
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Christ is the master the Scriptures are only the servant.
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