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Table Talk (selections) · Martin Luther
We must always drive on the article of Jesus Christ.
The Holy Ghost bringeth Christ home unto us; he must reveal him.
Where the Holy Ghost preacheth not, there is no Church.
The works of the Holy Ghost are wrought continually.
Of the Lord's Prayer.
To pray is to call upon God in all need, which is made precious through God's command, and necessity stirreth up earnest and devout prayers, which are our weapons against the devil.
The devil, the world, and our flesh is against God's Will.
The devil hindereth and destroyeth the daily bread and all the gifts of God.
God careth for our bodies daily.
No man can live in the world without sin.
No man can bring his own righteousness before God.
We must forgive, as God forgiveth us.
To forgive our neighbour, assureth us fully that God hath forgiven us.
We are tempted three manner of ways-of the devil, of the world, and of our flesh.
Temptations serve against the secureness of our flesh.
Temptations are not overcome through our own strength.
The devil would hinder all that we pray for.
The devil goeth about to bring us into all manner of need.
Of Baptism.
Faith is annexed to Baptism.
Faith must have before it some external thing.
Faith maketh the person worthy.
Baptism is not our work, but God's.
Baptism is right, although no man believeth.
No man must build upon his faith.
Unbelief weakeneth not God's Word.
Of the Lord's Supper.
The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is of God's ordaining.
The Word maketh a Sacrament.
Christ in the Sacrament is spiritual food for the soul.