Martin Luther Quotes
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How can a reason which hates God be called sound?
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I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.
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My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.
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Whatever we make the most of is our God.
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Sin is essentially a departure from God.
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Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.
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Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.
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I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.
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The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.
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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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Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
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A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 'tis a rare bird in the land.
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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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It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.
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God's mark is on everything that obeys Him.
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his salvation, he remains in carnal self-confidence; he is not a self-despairer, and therefore is not duly humbled before God, he believes he may lend a helping hand in his salvation, but on the contrary, whoever is truly convinced that the whole work depends singly on the will of God, such a person renounces his own will and strength; he waits and prays for the operation of God, nor waits and prays in vain.
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It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.
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For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that there is nothing which is able to pacify Him but this inestimable price, even the death and the blood of the Son of God, one drop of which is more precious than the whole world.
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A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.
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I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.
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Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.
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The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
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Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!