Martin Luther Quotes
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Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.
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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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Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'
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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 pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.
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Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.
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Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.
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When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.
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All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.
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We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.
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I do not admit that my doctrine can be judged by anyone.
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Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'
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There is no wisdom save in truth.
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Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.
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The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.
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When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.
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Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift.
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To say that the cross emblazoned with the papal coat of arms, and set up by the indulgence preachers, is equal in worth to the cross of Christ is blasphemy.
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Nothing is easier than sinning.
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None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
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The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.