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Devil Quotes by Martin Luther

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Martin Luther calls philosophy the devil’s whore and laughs at Satan’s anger when challenged. He suggests singing psalms to drive the devil away and stresses that believers should not face him alone. He also notes that the devil targets those without reason, using humor and community as weapons.

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The devil won't stay where there is music.

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The devil does not stay where music is.

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The devil doesn't stay where there is music.

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“Philosophy is the Devil's Whore”

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The devil is God's ape!

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The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

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Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.

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The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

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After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

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

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If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.

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The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.

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For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

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Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

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Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

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You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not…

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I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face,…

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

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We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is…

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Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from…

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The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own…

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The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without…

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The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for…

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The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put…

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World, death, devil, hell, away and leave me in peace! You have no hold on me. If you will not let me…

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I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up…

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Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal…

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The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the…

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The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests,…

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Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all -…

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Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou…

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If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the…

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The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what…

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God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil,…

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Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace.…

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It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there…

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Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it,…

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The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

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As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

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I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

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