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The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.


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“SO WHAT....
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MARTIN LUTHER Nothing good ever comes of violence.
MARTIN LUTHER For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than...
MARTIN LUTHER The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
MARTIN LUTHER The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
MARTIN LUTHER If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't ...
MARTIN LUTHER If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
MARTIN LUTHER The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it...
MARTIN LUTHER I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in expl...
MARTIN LUTHER When schools flourish, all flourishes.
MARTIN LUTHER Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
MARTIN LUTHER Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
MARTIN LUTHER First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each...
MARTIN LUTHER The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
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MARTIN LUTHER I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
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MARTIN LUTHER Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
MARTIN LUTHER Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
MARTIN LUTHER Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justic...
MARTIN LUTHER People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous ...
MARTIN LUTHER Forgiveness is God's command.
MARTIN LUTHER Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
MARTIN LUTHER I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution...
MARTIN LUTHER There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marr...
MARTIN LUTHER The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
MARTIN LUTHER All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
MARTIN LUTHER Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.
MARTIN LUTHER Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
MARTIN LUTHER Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even thoug...
MARTIN LUTHER Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.
MARTIN LUTHER Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct sugges...
MARTIN LUTHER To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life ...
MARTIN LUTHER Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!
MARTIN LUTHER Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
MARTIN LUTHER So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell h...
MARTIN LUTHER We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
MARTIN LUTHER This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not ...
MARTIN LUTHER How soon not now, becomes never.
MARTIN LUTHER All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will recei...
MARTIN LUTHER Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
MARTIN LUTHER Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
MARTIN LUTHER I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I...
MARTIN LUTHER Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.
MARTIN LUTHER If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
MARTIN LUTHER When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
MARTIN LUTHER Christian life consists of faith and charity.
MARTIN LUTHER Christians are rare people on earth.
MARTIN LUTHER You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.
MARTIN LUTHER The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners o...
MARTIN LUTHER Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
MARTIN LUTHER You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who recei...
MARTIN LUTHER Reason is the enemy of faith.
MARTIN LUTHER Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his ...
MARTIN LUTHER Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
MARTIN LUTHER I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pop...
MARTIN LUTHER In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incom...
MARTIN LUTHER The devil is God's ape!
MARTIN LUTHER If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses...
MARTIN LUTHER Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and so...
MARTIN LUTHER An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some r...
MARTIN LUTHER The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
MARTIN LUTHER Forgiveness is God's command.
MARTIN LUTHER Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
MARTIN LUTHER Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and wil...
MARTIN LUTHER People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous ...
MARTIN LUTHER You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposit...
MARTIN LUTHER Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.
MARTIN LUTHER I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on t...
MARTIN LUTHER You'll be subjected to hazing all your life.
MARTIN LUTHER The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
MARTIN LUTHER No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red a...
MARTIN LUTHER An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and th...
MARTIN LUTHER Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoev...
MARTIN LUTHER The Devil beget darkness; darkness beget ignorance; ignorance beget error and his brethren; error be...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of Philip & James, Apostles If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition eve...
MARTIN LUTHER In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, ...
MARTIN LUTHER Pray, and let God worry
MARTIN LUTHER I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his fac...
MARTIN LUTHER All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betray...
MARTIN LUTHER Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes begging.
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MARTIN LUTHER We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first d...
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MARTIN LUTHER Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 A Christian man is most free lord of all, and subject t...
MARTIN LUTHER Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if i...
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MARTIN LUTHER Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Kee...
MARTIN LUTHER What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it ...
MARTIN LUTHER In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, t...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either ...
MARTIN LUTHER The hair is the richest ornament of women.
MARTIN LUTHER You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say
MARTIN LUTHER A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth...
MARTIN LUTHER Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
MARTIN LUTHER A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.
MARTIN LUTHER Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for ...
MARTIN LUTHER Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good...
MARTIN LUTHER Teaching is of more importance than urging.
MARTIN LUTHER If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against ...
MARTIN LUTHER If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck ...
MARTIN LUTHER How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.
MARTIN LUTHER Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the desp...
MARTIN LUTHER Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gen...
MARTIN LUTHER War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it d...
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MARTIN LUTHER I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here ...
MARTIN LUTHER For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
MARTIN LUTHER You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
MARTIN LUTHER If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
MARTIN LUTHER Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
MARTIN LUTHER Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
MARTIN LUTHER The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I sho...
MARTIN LUTHER To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
MARTIN LUTHER Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
MARTIN LUTHER Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtim...
MARTIN LUTHER Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
MARTIN LUTHER Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
MARTIN LUTHER God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and s...
MARTIN LUTHER Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake ...
MARTIN LUTHER Pray, and let God worry.
MARTIN LUTHER There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marria...
MARTIN LUTHER Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
MARTIN LUTHER Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
MARTIN LUTHER Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and w...
MARTIN LUTHER Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of th...
MARTIN LUTHER If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he kn...
MARTIN LUTHER To progress is always to begin always to begin again
MARTIN LUTHER I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
MARTIN LUTHER Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful
MARTIN LUTHER The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and fl...
MARTIN LUTHER There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. On...
MARTIN LUTHER So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.
MARTIN LUTHER Everything done in the world is done by hope.
MARTIN LUTHER In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, w...
MARTIN LUTHER Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child ...
MARTIN LUTHER Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth
MARTIN LUTHER Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes
MARTIN LUTHER Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man woul...
MARTIN LUTHER In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More ...
MARTIN LUTHER Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the childre...
MARTIN LUTHER I more fear what is within me than what comes from without
MARTIN LUTHER I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's h...
MARTIN LUTHER All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will recei...
MARTIN LUTHER Who loves not wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long
MARTIN LUTHER Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
MARTIN LUTHER The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of mu...
MARTIN LUTHER There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.
MARTIN LUTHER I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's h...
MARTIN LUTHER Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
MARTIN LUTHER The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and...
MARTIN LUTHER Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, ...
MARTIN LUTHER Virtually the whole of the scriptures and the understanding of the whole of theology—the entire Ch...
MARTIN LUTHER We rightly confess, in our articles of belief, that there is a holy church; for it is invisible, dwe...
MARTIN LUTHER As we see from the Scriptures, it had become a common and proverbial expression that if someone want...
MARTIN LUTHER Well, there is nothing we can do about it. We have to put up with these snakes, dogs, and swine surr...
MARTIN LUTHER It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in...
MARTIN LUTHER I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligen...
MARTIN LUTHER [Re: Rom 10:2] It is commonly said: “The intention is good, and the purpose is true, but the means...
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MARTIN LUTHER Hence, when we ask anything of God and He begins to hear us, He so often goes counter to our petitio...
MARTIN LUTHER It is not our work, but God's gift, that we now hate ourselves and our sinful lusts and follow after...
MARTIN LUTHER Therefore the words in Psalm 72:7: "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace...
MARTIN LUTHER With reference to the elect we might distinguish between three classes. First, there are those who a...
MARTIN LUTHER Love is not only pure joy, and delight, but also great and deep heaviness of heart and sorrow. But l...
MARTIN LUTHER But what, then, is original sin? According to the Apostle it is not only the lack of a good quality ...
MARTIN LUTHER ‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We sho...
MARTIN LUTHER If anyone attempted to rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and sword on the...
MARTIN LUTHER In his life Christ is an example showing
us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfyi...
MARTIN LUTHER If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
MARTIN LUTHER There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
MARTIN LUTHER I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I poss...
MARTIN LUTHER Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!
MARTIN LUTHER I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
MARTIN LUTHER I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined t...
MARTIN LUTHER How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had comm...
MARTIN LUTHER The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good...
MARTIN LUTHER Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise.
MARTIN LUTHER The fewer words the better prayer.
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus For some years now I have read through the Bible tw...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer: I h...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 All who call on God in true faith, earne...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 I have held many things in my hands...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Let every man recognize what he is, and b...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Chri...
MARTIN LUTHER Christ says that not alone in the Church is there forgiveness of sins, but that where two or three a...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 All who call on God in true faith, ear...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of the Holy Innocents The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings th...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Here is the truly Christian life, here is...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles It is for Christ's sake that we believe in the Sc...
MARTIN LUTHER Man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body, in order to work on its account, but also f...
MARTIN LUTHER Continuing a short series on Romans 8: [Of vv. 4-13] You must not understand flesh here as ...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 The authority of Scripture is greater tha...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible: Chris...
MARTIN LUTHER Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to ...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 I have held many things in my hands,...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your ene...
MARTIN LUTHER For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel
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