Martin Luther Quotes About Christianity
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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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Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"
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The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
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There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment
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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.
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I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
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Our faith is an astounding thing-astounding that I should believe him to be the Son of God who is suspended on the cross, whom I have never seen, with whom I have never become acquainted.
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For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need
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The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away
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We should die relying on grace alone
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We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.
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There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
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Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
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Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
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The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.
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A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
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Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].
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It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.
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Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.
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Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.
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The Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand, it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand, it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so the soul will have a chance after it is changed.
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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
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Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?
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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.
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Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
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A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
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The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?
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Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.
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