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    Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

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    A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.

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    A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

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    A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.

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    A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

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    Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

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    Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

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    A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.

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    After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

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    After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

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    Against the flying ball no valor avails.

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    A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

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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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    A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

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    Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

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    A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

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    A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

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    Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

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    A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

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    A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.

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    All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.

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    All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

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    All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.

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    All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.

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    All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

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    All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

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    All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear; how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.

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    All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

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    Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.

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    Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.

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    Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you

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    A man cannot do good before he is made good.

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    A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.

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    A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

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    A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.

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    Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

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    Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it.

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    A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.

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    A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

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    An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

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    And I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone. No, never alone. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone.

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    And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

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    And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

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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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    Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.

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    Animals are footprints of God.

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    Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk.

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    Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

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    Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

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    Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.