Martin Luther Quotes
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I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.
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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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The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.
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As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and does not utterly despair of himself, and so is not humbled before God. Such a man plans out for himself a position, an occasion, a work, which shall bring him final salvation, but which will not.
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All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.
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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
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The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious.
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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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Insurrection ... never brings about the desired improvement. For insurrection lacks discernment; it generally harms the innocent more than the guilty. Hence, no insurrection is ever right, no matter how right the cause it seeks to promote.
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The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.
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I would rather obey than work miracles.
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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
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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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Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts. Open your heart, Untie the ribbons, and enjoy the contents! Were earth a thousand times as fair Beset with gold and jewels rare She yet were far too poor to be A narrow cradle, Lord, for Thee.
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Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.
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Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
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The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.
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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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Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.
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Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!
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If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.
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The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.