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I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of Gods word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now. Nobody is to blame for this except the pope, the bishops, and the prelates, who are all charged with training young people. 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? I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.
-Martin Luther
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Angels
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An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
-Martin Luther
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Anger
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When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
-Martin Luther
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Belief
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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Blood
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No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
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Bravery
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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!
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Brevity
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
-Martin Luther
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Christianity
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Christian life consists of faith and charity.
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Christians are rare people on earth.
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You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.
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Consequences
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The Devil beget darkness; darkness beget ignorance; ignorance beget error and his brethren; error beget free-will and presumption; free-will beget works; works beget forgetfulness of God; forgetfulness beget transgression; transgression beget superstition; superstition beget satisfaction; satisfaction beget the mass-offering; the mass-offering beget the priest; the priest beget unbelief; unbelief beget hypocrisy; hypocrisy beget traffic in offerings for gain; traffic in offerings for gain beget Purgatory; Purgatory beget the annual solemn vigils; the annual vigils beget church-livings; church-livings beget avarice; avarice beget swelling superfluity; swelling superfluity beget fulness; fulness beget rage; rage beget license; license beget empire and domination; domination beget pomp; pomp beget ambition; ambition beget simony; simony beget the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.
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Death
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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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Decisions
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The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
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Education
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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.
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Equality
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An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
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Evangelism
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If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
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Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
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Evil
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The devil is God's ape!
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Faith
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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
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Fools, Foolishness
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Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
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Forgiveness
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Forgiveness is God's command.
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Books by and about Martin Luther