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Category Archives: Martin Luther
God never stops teaching
…and Christians never stop learning. “God Himself is not ashamed to teach these things daily. He knows nothing better to teach. He always keeps teaching the same thing and does not take up anything new or different. All the saints … Continue reading
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Reading for understanding
“A student who doesn’t want his work to go for nothing ought to read and reread some good author until the author becomes part, as if were, of his flesh and blood. Scattered reading confuses more than it teaches. Many … Continue reading
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Martin Luther and the Continual Teaching of Righteousness
“But this most excellent righteousness, the righteousness of faith, which God imputes to us through Christ without works, is neither political nor ceremonial nor legal nor work-righteousness but is quite the opposite; it is a merely passive righteousness, while all … Continue reading
Martin Luther on the Good Samaritan and Charity
“The fact is that wherever his [Christ’s] Word is welcomed and received in faith, it fashions people like the Samaritan here–gentle, compassionate, merciful people. They cannot bear to see anyone suffering and when this happens they tender their own resources and … Continue reading
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No Thanks from the World
“In great part we serve, teach, admonish, suffer, give consolation, and do things commanded by God for unworthy men. Here we gain nothing for our services but hatred, envy, and exile; and our whole life is nothing else than the … Continue reading
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Schools Preserve the Church
“When schools flourish, things go well and the church is secure. Let us make more doctors and masters. The youth is the church’s nursery and fountainhead. When we are dead, where are others [to take our place] if there are … Continue reading
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Martin Luther on evil lawyers
“Lawyers’ craftiness is dangerous business. A godly man ought to know the law only for the sake of defense, to enable him to understand and prevent the wicked tricks of the world….Other lawyers are godless; they seek only their own … Continue reading
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Martin Luther, doctors, lawyers and such…..
“Where are the preachers, jurists, and physicians to come from, if grammar and other rhetorical arts are not taught? For such teaching is the spring from which they all must flow.” Martin Luther, “A Sermon on Keeping Children in School,” … Continue reading
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Luther’s Early Call for Reformation of the Universities
“Moreover, even if the universities were diligent in Holy Scripture, we need not send everybody there as we do now, where their only concern is numbers and where everybody wants a doctor’s degree. We should send only the most highly … Continue reading
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Luther, the Study of the Languages, and the Reformation
“I realize there has never been a great revelation of God’s Word unless God has first prepared the way by the rise and flourishing of languages and learning, as though these were forerunners, a sort of [John] the Baptist. Certainly … Continue reading
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