What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?

Martin Luther
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More Quotes By Martin Luther
  1. We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

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

  3. Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

  4. Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the...

  5. Be a sinner and sin boldly,  but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

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