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“No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.”

“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.”

“No great saint lived without errors.”

Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther

“As long as we live there is never enough singing.”

“Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.”

“He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.”

Variant: He who loves not Wine, Women and Song
Remains a fool his whole life long

“The fewer the words, the better the prayer.”

“Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.”

“The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands”

“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.”

Source: On Christian Liberty

“The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.”

Misattributed

“In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us…. More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.”

“It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.”

“It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.”

“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”

“God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.”

“One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!”

“Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.”

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”

Martin Luther book Table Talk

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Table Talk (1569)

“All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.”