Martin Luther Quotes
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It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.
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The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.
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If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.
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This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.
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The Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand, it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand, it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so the soul will have a chance after it is changed.
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We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.
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To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him.
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The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.
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At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
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Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.
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Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.
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To pray diligently is more than half the task.
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There can be no doubt that the Virgin Mary is in heaven. How it happened we do not know.
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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
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Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.
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This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.
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War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
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If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.
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We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.
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Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.
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I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
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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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Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.
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The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.