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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.

-Martin Luther

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It Is The Duty

Martin Luther

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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.

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Each Betrayal Begins With Trust.

Betraying Friends

This Is True Faith, A Living Confidence In The Goodness Of God.

Our Lord God Doesn't Do Great Things Except By Violence, As They Say

Either God Must Be Unjust, Or You, Jews, Wicked And Ungodly. You Have Been, About Fifteen Hundred Years, A Race Rejected Of God.

God Can Be Found Only In Suffering And The Cross.

God Delights In Our Temptations And Yet Hates Them. He Delights In Them When They Drive Us To Prayer; He Hates Them When They Drive Us To Despair.

I Am Not Permitted To Let My Love Be So Merciful As To Tolerate And Endure False Doctrine. When Faith And Doctrine Are Concerned And Endangered, Neither Love Nor Patience Are In Order....when These Are Concerned, Neither Toleration Nor Mercy Are In Order, But Only Anger, Dispute, And Destruction - To Be Sure, Only With The Word Of God As Our Weapon.

The Multitude Of Books Is A Great Evil. There Is No Limit To This Fever For Writing.

If Ever The Church Is To Flourish Again, One Must Begin By Instructing The Young.

It Cannot, Indeed, Be Denied, That A Good Man Is More Worthy Of Love Than A Bad One.

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.

The World Doesn't Want To Be Punished. It Wants To Remain In Darkness. It Doesn't Want To Be Told That What It Believes Is False. If You Also Don't Want To Be Corrected, Then You Might As Well Leave The Church And Spend Your Time At The Bar And Brothel. But If You Want To Be Saved-and Remember That There's Another Life After This One-you Must Accept Correction.

When The Devil Wants To Cause Offense Against The True Doctrine And Faith, He Does Not Do So Through Insignificant People, Who Do Not Rate Highly With The World, But Through Those Who Are The Very Best, The Wisest, The Holiest, And The Most Learned.

Earth Has Nothing More Tender Than A Woman's Heart When It Is The Abode Of Piety.

So It Is With Human Reason, Which Strives Not Against Faith, When Enlightened, But Rather Furthers And Advances It.

Reason Is The Greatest Enemy That Faith Has: It Never Comes To The Aid Of Spiritual Things.

It Is False That The Will, Left To Itself, Can Do Good As Well As Evil, For It Is Not Free, But In Bondage...on The Side Of Man There Is Nothing That Goes Before Grace, Unless It Be Impotency And Even Rebellion.

I Am Much Afraid That The Schools Will Prove The Very Gates Of Hell, Unless They Diligently Labour In Explaining The Holy Scriptures, And Engraving Them In The Hearts Of Youth. I Advise No One To Place His Child Where The Scriptures Do Not Reign Paramount. Every Institution In Which Means Are Not Unceasingly Occupied With The Word Of God Must Be Corrupt.

The Bible Is The Proper Book For Men. There The Truth Is Distinguished From Error Far More Clearly Than Anywhere Else, And One Finds Something New In It Every Day. For Twenty-eight Years, Since I Became A Doctor, I Have Now Constantly Read And Preached The Bible; And Yet I Have Not Exhausted It But Find Something New In It Every Day.

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

You See Then, That Diatribe Truly Possesses A Free Choice In Her Handling Of Scriptures, So That Words Of One And The Same Type Are For Her Obliged To Prove Endeavor In One Place And Freedom In Another, Exactly As She Pleases.

How Great, Therefore, The Wickedness Of Human Nature Is! How Many Girls There Are Who Prevent Conception And Kill And Expel Tender Fetuses, Although Procreation Is The Work Of God.

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We Believe That The Very Beginning And End Of Salvation, And The Sum Of Christianity, Consists Of Faith In Christ, Who By His Blood Alone, And Not By Any Works Of Ours, Has Put Away Sin, And Destroyed The Power Of Death.

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

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I More Fear What Is Within Me Than What Comes From Without.

He Who Is Well Acquainted With The Text Of Scripture, Is A Distinguished Theologian. For A Bible Passage Or Text Is Of More Value Than The Comments Of Four Authors.

I Think That We've Got To See That A Riot Is The Language Of The Unheard. And, What Is It That America Has Failed To Hear? It Has Failed To Hear That The Economic Plight Of The Negro Poor Has Worsened Over The Last Few Years.

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Even If I Knew That Tomorrow The World Would Go To Pieces, I Would Still Plant My Apple Tree.

Reason Should Be Destroyed In All Christians.

No One May Forsake Their Neighbors When They Are In Trouble. Everybody Is Under Obligation To Help And Support Their Neighbors As They Would Themselves Like To Be Helped.

Help And Support

Christ Designed That The Day Of His Coming Should Be Hid From Us, That Being In Suspense, We Might Be As It Were Upon The Watch.

There Are Two Days In My Calendar: This Day And That Day.

We May Well Lie With What Seems To Be A Woman Of Flesh And Blood, And Yet All The Time It Is Only A Devil In The Shape Of A Woman.

Every Country Must Have Its Own Devil. Welshland Its Own, And France Its Own. Our German Devil Will Be A Good Wind-pipe, And Must Be Called Drinking, Being So Thirsty And Hell-like That No Guzzling Of Wine And Beer, However Large, Will Cool It Off, And I Fear That Such Will Ever Remain Germany's Plague, Until The Day Of Judgment.

Faith Is A Free Surrenderand A Joyous Wager On The Unseen, Unknown, Untested Goodness Of God.

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.

The Works Of The Righteous Would Be Mortal Sins If They Would Not Be Feared As Mortal Sins By The Righteous Themselves Out Of Pious Fear Of God.

A Penny Saved Is Of More Value Than A Penny Paid Out.

I Did Not Learn My Theology All At Once, But Had To Search Constantly Deeper And Deeper For It. My Temptations Did That For Me, For No One Can Understand Holy Scripture Without Practice And Temptations...i T Is Not By Reading, Writing, Or Speculation That One Becomes A Theologian. Nay, Rather, It Is Living, Dying, And Being Damned That Makes One A Theologian.

If You Could Understand A Single Grain Of Wheat You Would Die Of Wonder.

When The Gospel Flourishes In The Church, Everything Flourishes With It.

Even Like As St. Paul Was Converted, Just So Are All Others Converted; For We All Resist God, But The Holy Ghost Draws The Will Of Mankind, When He Pleases, Through Preaching.

I Think These Things [firearms] Were Invented By Satan Himself, For They Can't Be Defended Against With (ordinary) Weapons And Fists. All Human Strength Vanishes When Confronted With Firearms. A Man Is Dead Before He Sees What's Coming.

The Devil Can So Completely Assume The Human Form, When He Wants To Deceive Us, That We May Well Lie With What Seems To Be A Woman, Of Real Flesh And Blood, And Yet All The While 'tis Only The Devil In The Shape Of A Woman. 'tis The Same With Women, Who May Think That A Man Is In Bed With Them, Yet 'tis Only The Devil; And...the Result Of This Connection Is Oftentimes An Imp Of Darkness, Half Mortal, Half Devil.

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, A Bulwark Never Failing: Our Helper He Amid The Flood Of Mortal Ills Prevailing.

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