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But Satan, The God Of All Dissension, Stirreth Up Daily New Sects, And Last Of All (which Of All Other I Should Never Have Foreseen Or Once Suspected) He Hath Raised Up A Sect Of Such As Teach That The Ten Commandments Ought To Be Taken Out Of The Church, And That Men Should Not Be Terrified With The Law, But Gently Exerted By The Preaching Of The Grace Of Christ.

-Martin Luther

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But Satan, The God

Martin Luther

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But Satan, The God Of All Dissension, Stirreth Up Daily New Sects, And Last Of All (which Of All Other I Should Never Have Foreseen Or Once Suspected) He Hath Raised Up A Sect Of Such As Teach That The Ten Commandments Ought To Be Taken Out Of The Church, And That Men Should Not Be Terrified With The Law, But Gently Exerted By The Preaching Of The Grace Of Christ.

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Every Book Is A Great Action And Every Great Action Is A Book!

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He That Has But One Word Of God Before Him, And Out Of That Word Cannot Make A Sermon, Can Never Be A Preacher.

They Are Trying To Make Me Into A Fixed Star. I Am An Irregular Planet.

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Human Nature Is Like A Drunk Peasant. Lift Him Into The Saddle On One Side, Over He Topples On The Other Side.

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That Little Bird Has Chosen His Shelter. Above It Are The Stars And The Deep Heaven Of Worlds. Yet He Is Rocking Himself To Sleep Without Caring For Tomorrow's Lodging, Calmly Clinging To His Little Twig, And Leaving God To Think For Him.

While We Contemplate In All Creatures, As In A Mirror, Those Immense Riches Of His Wisdom, Justice, Goodness And Power, We Should Not Meerly Run Them Over Cursorily, And, So To Speak, With A Fleeting Glance, But We Should Ponder Them At Length, Turn Them Over In Our Mind Seriously And Faithfully And Recollect Them Repeatedly.

All Laws And Philosophy Merely Tell Us What Should Be Done, But They Do Not Provide The Strength To Do It.

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A Christian Is Free And Independent In Every Respect, A Bond Servant To None. A Christian Is A Dutiful Servant In Every Respect, Owing A Duty To Everyone.

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Christ Ought To Be Preached With This Goal In Mind--that We Might Be Moved To Faith In Him So That He Is Not Just A Distant Historical Figure But Actually Christ For You And Me.

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God Wants Our Conscience To Be Certain And Sure That It Is Pleasing To Him. This Cannot Be Done If The Conscience Is Led By Its Own Feelings, But Only If It Relies On The Word Of God.

This Error Of Free Will Is A Special Doctrine Of The Antichrist.

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Even Though They (women) Grow Weary And Wear Themselves Out With Child-bearing, It Does Not Matter; Let Them Go On Bearing Children Till They Die, That Is What They Are There For.

Once Sure That The Doctrine We Teach Is God's Word, Once Certain Of This, We May Build Thereupon, And Know That This Cause Shall And Must Remain; The Devil Shall Not Be Able To Overthrow It, Much Less The World Be Able To Uproot It, How Fiercely Soever It Rage.

One Drop Of Christ's Blood Is Worth More Than Heaven And Earth.

The Mad Mob Does Not Ask How It Could Be Better, Only That It Be Different. And When It Then Becomes Worse, It Must Change Again. Thus They Get Bees For Flies, And At Last Hornets For Bees.

Men Are Not Made Religious By Performing Certain Actions Which Are Externally Good, But They Must First Have Righteous Principles, And Then They Will Not Fail To Perform Virtuous Actions.

They [rulers] Must Act Like A Good Physician Who, When Gangrene Has Set In Proceeds Without Mercy To Cut, Saw, And Burn Flesh, Veins, Bone, And Marrow. Such A Procedure Must Also Be Followed In This Instance. Burn Down Their Synagogues, Forbid All That I Enumerated Earlier, Force Them To Work, And Deal Harshly With Them, As Moses Did... If This Does Not Help We Must Drive Them Out Like Mad Dogs.

If The Gospel Was Of A Nature To Be Propagated Or Maintained By The Power Of The World, God Would Not Have Intrusted It To Fishermen. To Defend The Gospel Appertains Not To The Princes And Pontiffs Of This World.

War Is The Greatest Plague That Can Afflict Humanity, It Destroys Religion, It Destroys States, It Destroys Families. Any Scourge Is Preferable To It.

Let Your Holy Angel Have Charge Concerning Us, That The Wicked One Have No Power Over Us.

Even If All The World Were To Combine Forces, They Could Not Bring About The Conception Of A Single Child In Any Woman's Womb Nor Cause It To Be Born; That Is Wholly The Work Of God.

Whatever You Love Most, That Is Your God.

If Obedience Is Not Rendered In The Homes, We Shall Never Have A Whole City, Country, Principality, Or Kingdom Well Governed. For This Order In The Homes Is The First Rule; It Is The Source Of All Other Rule And Government.

For That Purpose Christ Instituted Holy Baptism, Thereby To Clothe You With His Righteousness. It Is Tantamount To His Saying, My Righteousness Shall Be Your Righteousness; My Innocence, Your Innocence. Your Sins Indeed Are Great, But By Baptism I Bestow On You My Righteousness; I Strip Death From You And Clothe You With My Life.

A Simple Man With Scripture Has More Authority Than The Pope Or A Council.

Amen Meaneth Assuredly, Namely, That I Am Sure That Petitions Of This Kind Are Accepted By My Heavenly Father, And Heard By Him, Because He Hath Commanded Us, That We Should Pray After This Manner, And Hath Promised That He Will Hear Us. Amen, Amen: That Is, Truly, Certainly, So Be It.

Divinity Consists In Use And Practice, Not In Speculation.

Our Faith Is An Astounding Thing-astounding That I Should Believe Him To Be The Son Of God Who Is Suspended On The Cross, Whom I Have Never Seen, With Whom I Have Never Become Acquainted.

Many Pass For Saints On Earth Whose Souls Are In Hell.

True Christian Love Is Not Derived From Things Without, But Floweth From The Heart, As From A Spring.

He Who Loves Not Women, Wine, And Song Remains A Fool His Whole Life Long.

This Is The Good And Happy News, That Christ Has Paid For Our Sin, And Through His Suffering Has Redeemed Us From Eternal Death. It Is His Kingdom And His Ministry, To Preach The Gospel To The Poor; That Is His Purpose. For To The Great And Holy He Cannot Come. They Do Not Wish To Be Counted Sinners, And Therefore Do Not Need His Gospel.

I Put The Scriptures Above All The Sayings Of The Fathers, Angels, Men And Devils. Here I Take My Stand.

Whoso Hearkens Not To God's Voice, Is An Idolator, Though He Perform The Highest And Most Heavy Service Of God.

What Man, If He Were God, Would Humble Himself To Lie In The Feedbox Of A Donkey Or To Hang Upon A Cross?

You Are Not Only Responsible For What You Say, But Also For What You Do Not Say

Inspirational Kindness

It Hath Been Said, That There Is Of Nothing So Much In Hell As Of Self-will. The Which Is True, For There Is Nothing Else There Than Self-will, And If There Were No Self-will, There Would Be No Devil And No Hell. When It Is Said That Lucifer Fell From Heaven, And Turned Away From God And The Like, It Meaneth Nothing Else Than That He Would Have His Own Will, And Would Not Be At One With The Eternal Will. So Was It Likewise With Adam In Paradise. And When We Say Self-will, We Mean, To Will Otherwise Than As The One And Eternal Will Of God Willeth.

The Gospel Cannot Be Truly Preached Without Offense And Tumult.

I Did Nothing. The Word Did It All.

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.

What The Situation Will Be Like In The World Before The Lord Returns, Namely, Christ Will Be Despised, And The Preachers Of The Gospel Will Be Regarded As Fools.

Superstition, Idolatry, And Hypocrisy Have Ample Wages, But Truth Goes A Begging.

Whatever Your Heart Clings To And Confides In, That Is Really Your God, Your Functional Savior.

If We Esteem Them Too Highly, Good Works Can Become The Greatest Idolatry.

When I Am Assailed With Heavy Tribulations, I Rush Out Among My Pigs Rather Than Remain Alone By Myself. The Human Heart Is Like A Millstone In A Mill: When You Put Wheat Under It, It Turns And Grinds And Bruises The Wheat To Flour; If You Put No Wheat, It Still Grinds On, But Then 'tis Itself It Grinds And Wears Away. So The Human Heart, Unless It Be Occupied With Some Employment, Leaves Space For The Devil, Who Wriggles Himself In And Brings With Him A Whole Host Of Evil Thoughts, Temptations, And Tribulations, Which Grind Out The Heart.

Dearest Jesus, Holy Child, Make Thee A Bed, Soft, Undefiled, Within My Heart, That It May Be A Quiet Chamber Kept For Thee.

Cannons And Fire-arms Are Cruel And Damnable Machines; I Believe Them To Have Been The Direct Suggestion Of The Devil. If Adam Had Seen In A Vision The Horrible Instruments His Children Were To Invent, He Would Have Died Of Grief.

To Worship God In Spirit Is The Service And Homage Of The Heart, And Implies Fear Of God And Trust In Him.

I Am Of A Different Mind Ten Times In The Course Of A Day. But I Resist The Devil, And Often It Is With A Fart That I Chase Him Away. When He Tempts Me With Silly Sins I Say, 'devil, Yesterday I Broke Wind Too. Have You Written It Down On Your List?

Not Only The Words (vocabula) Which The Holy Spirit And Scripture Use Are Divine, But Also The Phrasing

It Is The Duty Of A Prudent Minister Of God To Hold His Ministry In Honor And To See To It That It Is Respected By Those Who Are In His Charge. Moreoever, It Is The Duty Of A Faithful Minister Not To Exceed His Powers And Not To Abuse His Office In Pride, But, Rather, To Administer It For The Benefit Of His Subjects.

The World Says Of Marriage: A Short Joy And A Long Displeasure. But He Who Understands It Finds In It Delight, Love, And Joy Without Ceasing.

Idiots, The Lame, The Blind, The Dumb, Are Men In Whom The Devils Have Established Themselves: And All The Physicians Who Heal These Infirmities, As Though They Proceeded From Natural Causes, Are Ignorant Blockheads.

I [i.e., God] Have Given You Baptism As A Gift For The Forgiveness Of Sins, And Preach To You Unceasingly By Word Of Mouth Concerning This Treasure, Sealing It With The Sacrament Of My Body And Blood, So That You Need Never Doubt. True, It Seems Little And Insignificant That By The Washing Of Water, The Word, And The Sacrament This Should All Be Effected. But Don't Let Your Eyes Deceive You.

There Never Yet Have Been, Nor Are There Now, Too Many Good Books.

God Does Not Save Those Who Are Only Imaginary Sinners. Be A Sinner, And Let Your Sins Be Strong (sin Boldly), But Let Your Trust In Christ Be Stronger, And Rejoice In Christ Who Is The Victor Over Sin, Death, And The World. We Will Commit Sins While We Are Here, For This Life Is Not A Place Where Justice Resides. We, However, ... Are Looking Forward To A New Heaven And A New Earth Where Justice Will Reign.

Does It Follow From: 'turn Ye' That Therefore You Can Turn? Does It Follow From "'love The Lord Thy God With All Thy Heart' (deut 6.5) That Therefore You Can Love With All Your Heart? What Do Arguments Of This Kind Prove, But The 'free-will' Does Not Need The Grace Of God, But Can Do All Things By Its Own Power....but It Does Not Follow From This That Man Is Converted By His Own Power, Nor Do The Words Say So; They Simply Say: "if Thou Wilt Turn,telling Man What He Should Do. When He Knows It, And Sees That He Cannot Do It, He Will Ask Whence He May Find Ability To Do It..." 164

It Is Impossible For A Man To Be A Christian Without Having Christ; And If He Has Christ He Has At The Same Time All That Is In Christ.

Daily There Have To Be Many Troubles And Trials In Every House, City, And Country. No Station In Life Is Free Of Suffering And Pain, Both From Your Own, Like Your Wife Or Children Or Household Help Or Subjects, And From The Outside, From Your Neighbors And All Sorts Of Accidental Trouble.

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.

Count It One Of The Highest Virtues Upon Earth To Educate Faithfully The Children Of Others, Which So Few, And Scarcely Any, Do By Their Own.

If Anyone Could Have Gained Heaven As A Monk, Then I Would Indeed Have Been Among Them.

No Man Should Be Alone When He Opposes Satan. The Church And The Ministry Of The Word Were Instituted For This Purpose, That Hands May Be Joined Together And One May Help Another.

[our] Plan Is To Follow The Example Of The Prophets And The Ancient Fathers Of The Church, And To Compose Psalms...so That The Word Of God May Be Among The People Also In The Form Of Music.

We Know, On The Authority Of Moses, That Longer Than Six Thousand Years The World Did Not Exist.

The Sin Underneath All Our Sins Is To Trust The Lie Of The Serpent That We Cannot Trust The Love And Grace Of Christ And Must Take Matters Into Our Own Hands

I'd Rather See Heaven Crash From The Skies Than One Grain Of God's Truth Die.

The First Thing I Ask Is That People Should Not Make Use Of My Name, And Should Not Call Themselves Lutherans But Christians. What Is Luther? The Teaching Is Not Mine. Nor Was I Crucified For Anyone...how Did I, Poor Stinking Bag Of Maggots That I Am, Come To The Point Where People Call The Children Of Christ By My Evil Name?

In A Delightful Garden, Sowing, Planting Or Digging Are Not Hardship But Are Done With A Zeal And A Certain Pleasure.

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