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Don’t believe everything you hear. Don’t speak everything you know. Don’t do everything you can. — Martin Luther Quoted in Luther on Leadership by Stephen J. Nichols, p. 65.
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The Pharisee and the publican
This, then, is a terrible, fearsome lesson concerning the Pharisee who, uncondemned before the world, is damned because of his haughtiness and disdain for other people. For where such pride, as described in our text, is present, there forgiveness of sins cannot be. It was pride that precipitated the noblest angel out of heaven; and
Martin Luther on marriage
From The Estate of Marriage. Part One. … From this ordinance of creation God has himself exempted three categories of men, saying in Matthew 19[:12], “There are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for
Martin Luther on marriage
From Table-Talk (“Of Marriage and Celibacy”). ….. But neither God’s ordinance, nor the gracious presence of children, the fruit of matrimony, moves the ungodly world, which beholds only the temporal difficulties and troubles of matrimony, but sees not the great treasure that is hid therein. …. Let the contemners and rejecters of matrimony go hang
Dr. Martin Luther on confessing Christ
A quote from Martin Luther, important to reflect on today. If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ.