Martin Luther Quotes
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Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
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I know God only as he became human, so shall I have him in no other way.'
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But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.
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He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.
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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
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When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.
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It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that it is respected by those who are in his charge. Moreoever, it is the duty of a faithful minister not to exceed his powers and not to abuse his office in pride, but, rather, to administer it for the benefit of his subjects.
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Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace. This is a sure token that the devil is guarding the entry to the house, and that the PURE doctrine of God's Word has been taken away. The Church then, is in the BEST state when Satan assaileth it on every sideboth with subtle sleights, and outright violence. And likewise, it is in the WORST state when it is most at peace!
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten.
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When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.
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God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.
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How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian.
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God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.
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It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.
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Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.
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A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.
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We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.
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The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.
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The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.
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When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
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Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing 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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A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.
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Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.