"They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?"
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"The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted."
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"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."
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"What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong."
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"I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him"
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"We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works."
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"As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray."
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"Each betrayal begins with trust."
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"Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more."
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"The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay."
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"Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge."
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"He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ."
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"I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist."
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"You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you."
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"Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'"
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"All of a Christian's life is one of repentance."
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"God may delay, but He always comes."
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"In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything."
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"The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious."
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"Drive them [Jews] like mad dogs from our land... let not one of them live."
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