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" First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. "

Martin Luther

Climb

Leaf

Look

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Martin Luther

Alone

Help

" You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. "

Martin Luther

Feelings

Believe

" God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. "

" If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself. "

" The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. "

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

" The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride. "

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" My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. "

" I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. "

" If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. "

" The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. "

Martin Luther

Mystery

Generation

" Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. "

" I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. "

" People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. "

" Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. "

Martin Luther

Sin

Christ

" Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. "

" The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. "

" Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. "

" If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. "

Martin Luther

Want

Laugh

" I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men. "