Martin Luther Quotes About Religion
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Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
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Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.
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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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What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
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The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
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Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings; but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.
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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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In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.
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Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
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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.
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Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
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Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!
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Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.
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It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.
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Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
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This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from eternal death. It is His kingdom and His ministry, to preach the Gospel to the poor; that is His purpose. For to the great and holy He cannot come. They do not wish to be counted sinners, and therefore do not need His Gospel.
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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.
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Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.
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... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.
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