Martin Luther Quotes

Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
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Faith Forget Myself People
I’ll trust in God’s unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.
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Body Change Forever God Myself Soul Trust Word World
He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
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Fools Himself Life Love Song Wine Woman
Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.
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God Myself Religious Right Sin Thankful Yourself
The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.
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Book Broken Heart Law Proud Religious
Pray, and let God worry.
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Encouragement God Hope One Liner Prayer Trust
If you see yourself as a “little sinner” you will inevitably see Jesus as a “little savior”.
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Save See Sin Yourself
I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!
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Commitment Death Deserve God Hell Himself Myself Satisfaction Suffering
All of a Christian’s life is one of repentance.
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Life Oneself Religious
Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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Faith God Prayer Willing
Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.
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Art Gift Glory God Music Place Strong
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
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Company Friendship Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
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Change Faith Religious Transformation
This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
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Change Evidence Experience God Grace Greatness Hide Lying Men Soul Strong
A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.
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Body Happiness Misery
The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
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Belief Hard Myself Prayer Result
He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
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Christ Death Deep Freedom Himself Myself Religious Right Sin
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
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Faith God Love People Person Religious Togetherness
God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
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Creation God Men Power
Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I’ll show you his god.
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God Himself Men Money Myself Time
The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the ‘doers of the word’ in faith and love, and not the ‘mere hearers,’ who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.
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Expression God Learning Love Power Practice Talk
I simply taught, preached, wrote God’s Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
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God Learning Myself Simplicity Word Writing
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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Feeling Himself Leaving Love Marriage Sorry
The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc; but how few acknowledge these as God’s special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.
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Body Gift God Gratitude Health Reaction Thankful
If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.
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Comfortable Eyes Fools Help Man Need Neighbor Ourselves Poor Wisdom World
Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.
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Dog Myself Prayer View
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
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Cost Faith One Liner Peace Truth

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