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I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

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Martin Luther
Age: 62 †
Born: 1483
Born: November 10
Died: 1546
Died: February 18
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Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.
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A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.
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The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.
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No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
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No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.
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The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.
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When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
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A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.
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Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.
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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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If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
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If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.
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We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
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As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.
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