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The Universities Only Ought To Turn Out Men Who Are Experts In The Holy Scriptures, Men Who Can Become Bishops And Priests, And Stand In The Front Line Against Heretics, The Devil, And All The World. But Where Do You Find That?

-Martin Luther

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The Universities Only Ought

Martin Luther

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The Universities Only Ought To Turn Out Men Who Are Experts In The Holy Scriptures, Men Who Can Become Bishops And Priests, And Stand In The Front Line Against Heretics, The Devil, And All The World. But Where Do You Find That?

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I Have Lived To See The Greatest Plague On Earth -- The Condemning Of God's Word, A Fearful Thing, Surpassing All Other Plagues In The World; For Thereupon Most Surely Follow All Manner Of Punishments, Eternal And Corporal.

At Poltersberg, There Is A Lake Similarly Cursed. If You Throw A Stone Into It, A Dreadful Storm Immediately Arises, And The Whole Neighboring District Quakes To Its Centre. 'tis The Devils Kept Prisoner There.

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Thoughts Are Not Subject To Duty.

Come, Let Us Sing A Psalm, And Drive Away The Devil.

Whoever Would Like To Cherish Such Adders And Puny Devils - Who Are The Worst Enemies Of Christ And Us All - To Befriend Them And To Do Them Honour Simply In Order To Be Cheated, Plundered, Robbed, Disgraced, And Forced To Howl And Curse And Suffer Every Kind Of Evil, To Him I Would Commend The Jews. And If This Is Not Enough, Let Him Tell The Jews To Use His Mouth As A Privy, Or Else Crawl Into The Jew's Hind Parts, And There Worship The Holy Thing, So As Afterwards To Be Able To Boast Of Having Been Merciful, And Of Having Helped The Devil And His Progeny To Blaspheme Our Dear Lord.

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

Faith Is A Living, Daring, Confidence In God's Grace.

Now If I Believe In God's Son And Remember That He Became Man, All Creatures Will Appear A Hundred Times More Beautiful To Me Than Before. Then I Will Properly Appreciate The Sun, The Moon, The Stars, Trees, Apples, As I Reflect That He Is Lord Over All Things. ...god Writes The Gospel, Not In The Bible Alone, But Also On Trees, And In The Flowers And Clouds And Stars.

The Soul Can Do Without Everything Except The Word Of God, Without Which None At All Of Its Wants Are Provided For.

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Christ Will Remain A Priest And King; Though He Was Never Consecrated By Any Papist Bishop Or Greased By Any Of Those Shavelings; But He Was Ordained And Consecrated By God Himself, And By Him Anointed.

I Am Afraid That The Schools Will Prove The Very Gates Of Hell, Unless They Diligently Labor In Explaining The Holy Scriptures And Engraving Them In The Heart Of The Youth.

As For The Demented, I Hold It Certain That All Beings Deprived Of Reason Are Thus Afflicted Only By The Devil.

A Christian Is A Perfectly Free Lord Of All, Subject To None. A Christian Is A Perfectly Dutiful Servant Of All, Subject Of All, Subject To All.

The Quest For Glory Can Never Be Satisfied, It Must Be Extinguished.

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.

For What God Gives I Thank Indeed; What He Withholds I Do Not Need

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Believest Thou? Then Thou Wilt Speak Boldly. Speakest Thou Boldy? Then Thou Must Suffer. Sufferest Thou? Then Thou Shalt Be Comforted. For Faith, The Confession Thereof, And The Cross Do Follow One Another.

A Unjust Law, Is No Law At All.

God Wants Us To Pray, And He Wants To Hear Our Prayers-not Because We Are Worthy, But Because He Is Merciful.

Blood Alone Moves The Wheels Of History.

Each Betrayal Begins With Trust.

Betraying Friends

Therefore Be On Your Guard Against The Jews, Knowing That Wherever They Have Their Synagogues, Nothing Is Found But A Den Of Devils In Which Sheer Self-glory, Conceit, Lies, Blasphemy, And Defaming Of God And Men Are Practiced Most Maliciously And Veheming His Eyes On Them.

Heavy Thoughts Bring On Physical Maladies; When The Soul Is Oppressed So Is The Body.

What Shall We Do With...the Jews?...i Advise That Safe-conduct On The Highways Be Abolished Completely For The Jews.

Do Not Suppose That Abuses Are Eliminated By Destroying The Object Which Is Abused. Men Can Go Wrong With Wine And Women. Shall We Then Prohibit And Abolish Women?

Reason Must Be Deluded, Blinded, And Destroyed. Faith Must Trample Underfoot All Reason, Sense, And Understanding, And Whatever It Sees Must Be Put Out Of Sight And ... Know Nothing But The Word Of God.

The Will Is A Beast Of Burden. If God Mounts It, It Wishes And Goes As God Wills; If Satan Mounts It, It Wishes And Goes As Satan Wills; Nor Can It Choose Its Rider... The Riders Contend For Its Possession.

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A Happy Fart Never Comes From A Miserable Ass.

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Let Us Not Flutter Too High, But Remain By The Manger And The Swaddling Clothes Of Christ, 'in Whom Dwelleth All The Fullness Of The Godhead Bodily.'

Forgiveness Is God's Command.

Nothing Is More Beautiful In The Eyes Of God Than A Soul That Loves To Hear His Word.

Forgive Us Our Trespasses As We Forgive Them That Trespass Against Us.

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.

Angels Are Our True And Trusty Servants, Performing Offices And Works That One Poor Miserable Mendicant Would Be Ashamed To Do For Another.

There Are Three Conversions Necessary (for The Christian Life): The Conversion Of The Heart, The Mind, And The Purse.

Beautiful Music Is The Art Of The Prophets That Can Calm The Agitations Of The Soul; It Is One Of The Most Magnificent And Delightful Presents God Has Given Us.

Unto Him Who Is Able To Keep Us From Falling, And Lift Us From The Dark To The Bright Mountain Of Hope, From The Midnight Of Desperation To The Daybreak Of Joy, To Him Be Power And Authority For Ever And Ever.

God Does Not Work Salvation For Fictitious Sinners. Be A Sinner And Sin Vigorously... Do Not For A Moment Imagine That This Life Is The Abiding Place Of Justice; Sin Must Be Committed.

The Believing Man Hath The Holy Ghost; And Where The Holy Ghost Dwelleth, He Will Not Suffer A Man To Be Idle, Butstirreth Him Up To All Exercises Of Piety And Godliness, And Of True Religion, To The Love Of God, To The Patient Suffering Of Afflictions, To Prayer, To Thanksgiving, And The Exercise Of Charity Towards All Men.

Each Day Of The Holidays Comes Bringing Its Own Gifts. Open Your Heart, Untie The Ribbons, And Enjoy The Contents! Were Earth A Thousand Times As Fair Beset With Gold And Jewels Rare She Yet Were Far Too Poor To Be A Narrow Cradle, Lord, For Thee.

We Should Throw The Epistle Of James Out Of This School.

Marriage Is A Civic Matter. It Is Really Not, Together With All Its Circumstances, The Business Of The Church.

Whoever Does Not Know God Hidden In Suffering Does Not Know God At All.

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.

We Find No Rest For Our Weary Bones Unless We Cling To The Word Of Grace.

I Am So Busy Now That If I Did Not Spend Three Hours Each Day In Prayer, I Could Not Get Through The Day.

The Heavenly Blessing Is To Be Delivered From The Law, Sin And Death; To Be Justified And Quickened To Life: To Have Peace With God; To Have A Faithful Heart, A Joyful Conscience, A Spiritual Consolation; To Have The Knowledge Of Jesus Christ; To Have The Gift Of Prophecy, And The Revelation Of The Scriptures; To Have The Gift Of The Holy Ghost, And To Rejoice In God.

For They Who Think They Make An End Of Temptation By Yeilding To It, Only Set Themselves On Fire The More.

The Mass Is The Greatest Blasphemy Of God, And The Highest Idolatry Upon Earth, An Abomination The Like Of Which Has Never Been In Christendom Since The Time Of The Apostles.

It Is Certainly True That Reason Is The Most Important And The Highest Rank Among All Things And, In Comparison With Other Things Of This Life, The Best And Something Divine. It Is The Inventor And Mentor Of All The Arts, Medicines, Laws, And Of Whatever Wisdom, Power, Virtue, And Glory Men Possess In This Life.

I Should Have No Compassion On These Witches; I Should Burn Them All.

God Does Not Love Sinners Because They Are Attractive; Sinners Are Attractive To God Because He Loves Them.

The Secret Of Contentment Is The Realization That Life Is A Gift, Not A Right. Next To Faith This Is The Highest Art - To Be Content With The Calling In Which God Has Placed You.

Let The Man Who Would Hear God Speak, Read Holy Scriptures.

How Can A Reason Which Hates God Be Called Sound?

We Are Saved By Faith Alone, But The Faith That Saves Is Never Alone.

Justification By Faith

I'll Trust In God's Unchanging Word, Till Soul And Body Sever. For Though All Things Pass Away, His Word Shall Stand Forever.

God's Entire Divine Nature Is Wholly And Entirely In All Creatures, More Deeply, More Inwardly, More Present Than The Creature Is To Itself.

A Lie Is Like A Snow-ball; The Longer It Is Rolled, The Larger It Is.

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.

Whoever Teaches Differently From What I Have Taught, Or Whoever Condemns Me Therein, He Condemns God And Must Remain A Child Of Hell.

For It Is A Horrible Blasphemy To Imagine That There Is Any Work By Which You Should Presume To Pacify God, Since You See That There Is Nothing Which Is Able To Pacify Him But This Inestimable Price, Even The Death And The Blood Of The Son Of God, One Drop Of Which Is More Precious Than The Whole World.

But Then Eject Them Forever From This Country. For, As We Have Heard, God's Anger With Them Is So Intense That Gentle Mercy Will Only Tend To Make Them Worse And Worse, While Sharp Mercy Will Reform Them But Little. Therefore, In Any Case, Away With Them!

You Must Learn That If You Are A Christian, You Will Without A Doubt Experience All Kinds Of Opposition And Evil Inclinations In The Flesh. For When You Have Faith, There Will Be A Hundred More Evil Thoughts And A Hundred More Temptations Than Before.

Heaven And Earth, All The Emperors, Kings, And Princes Of The World, Could Not Raise A Fit Dwelling-place For God; Yet, In A Weak Human Soul, That Keeps His Word, He Willingly Resides.

The Church That Preaches The Gospel In All Of Its Fullness, Except As It Applies To The Great Social Ills Of The Day, Is Failing To Preach The Gospel.

When Our Lord And Master Jesus Christ Said, 'repent,' He Willed The Entire Life Of Believers To Be One Of Repentance.

Love Is An Image Of God, And Not A Lifeless Image, But The Living Essence Of The Divine Nature Which Beams Full Of All Goodness.

When We Are Inclined To Boast Of Our Position [as Christians] We Should Remember That We Are But Gentiles, While The Jews Are Of The Lineage Of Christ. We Are Aliens And In-laws; They Are Blood Relatives, Cousins, And Brothers Of Our Lord. Therefore, If One Is To Boast Of Flesh And Blood The Jews Are Actually Nearer To Christ Than We Are.

I Have Before Me God's Word Which Cannot Fail, Nor Can The Gates Of Hell Prevail Against It; Thereby Will I Remain, Though The Whole World Be Against Me.

Either Sin Is With You, Lying On Your Shoulders, Or It Is Lying On Christ, The Lamb Of God.

In Our Sad Condition Our Only Consolation Is The Expectancy Of Another Life. Here Below All Is Incomprehensible.

Undoubtedly They Do More And Viler Things Than Those Which We Know And Discover

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

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

It Is A Miracle How God Has So Long Preserved His Book! How Great And Glorious It Is To Have The Word Of God!

It Is As If A Wolf Devoured A Sheep And The Sheep Were So Powerful That It Transformed The Wolf And Turned Him Into A Sheep. So, When We Eat Christ's Flesh Physically And Spiritually, The Food Is So Powerful That It Transforms Us.

Those Who Love Music Are Gentle And Honest In Their Tempers. I Always Loved Music, And Would Not, For A Great Matter, Be Without The Little Skill Which I Possess In The Art.

If There Is Anything In Us, It Is Not Our Own; It Is A Gift Of God. But If It Is A Gift Of God, Then It Is Entirely A Debt One Owes To Love, That Is, To The Law Of Christ. And If It Is A Debt Owed To Love, Then I Must Serve Others With It, Not Myself.

No One Would Be Happier Than Luther To Be Commended By The Testimony Of The Time That He Had Been Neither Slack Nor Deceitful In Maintaining The Course Of Truth, But Had Shown Quite Enough And Even Too Much Vehemence.

Animals Are Footprints Of God.

Prayer Is Not Overcoming God's Reluctance. It Is Laying Hold Of His Willingness.

In This Revolution No Plans Have Been Written For Retreat.

Teaching Is Of More Importance Than Urging.

I Have So Much To Do That I Shall Spend The First Three Hours In Prayer.

An Angel Is A Spiritual Creature Created By God Without A Body, For The Service Of Christendom And Of The Church.

It Is Impossible To Separate Works From Faith- Yea, Just As Impossible As To Separate Burning And Shining From Fire.

Peter Erred In Life And In Doctrine. Paul Might Have Dismissed Peter's Error As A Matter Of No Consequence. But Paul Saw That Peter's Error Would Lead To The Damage Of The Whole Church Unless It Were Corrected. Therefore He Withstood Peter To His Face. The Church, Peter, The Apostles, Angels From Heaven, Are Not To Be Heard Unless They Teach The Genuine Word Of God.

Nothing Good Ever Comes Of Violence.

The Veneration Of Mary Is Inscribed In The Very Depths Of The Human Heart

Faith Is The 'yes' Of The Heart, A Conviction On Which One Stakes One's Life.

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