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Martin Luther quotes (page 17 of 48)
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"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."
"Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world."
"A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council."
"People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions."
"Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body."
"Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly."
"The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer."
"What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews."
"All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things."
"The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns."
"Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me."
"Blood alone moves the wheels of history."
"It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil."
"The devil doesn't stay where there is music."
"Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown."
"It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience."
"God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field."
"God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers."
"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."