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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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The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting place. They sit as on a wheelbarrow, without a country, people or government... but they are rightly served, for seeing they refused have Christ and his gospel, instead of freedom they must have servitude.
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True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.
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The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.
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The Bible is alive, it speaks to me it has feet, it runs after me it has hands, it lays hold of me.
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what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.
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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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It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.
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The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
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The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.
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