Martin Luther Quotes
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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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Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
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You must not murder.(Exodus 20:13) Q. What does this mean? A. We should fear and love God so that we may not hurt or harm our neighbor in his body, but help and befriend him in every bodily need in every need and danger of life and body.
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We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'
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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 dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
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I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
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When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
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There is no need for you to develop an armed insurrection. Christ himself has already begun an insurrection with his mouth.
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If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.
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I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.
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Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
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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, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that?
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As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
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Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.
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From you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.
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Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.
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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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Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
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Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
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He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep." They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility; with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly.
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Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
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We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
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Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.