Martin Luther Quotes
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False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.
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Reason is the enemy of faith.
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Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.
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In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.
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No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
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I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.
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Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.
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I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.
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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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God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.
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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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This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer ours but Christ's; and the righteousness of Christ is not Christ's but ours. He has emptied himself of his righteousness that he might clothe us in it, and fill us with it: and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us from them.
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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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The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer & more certain than sense & life itself.
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We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
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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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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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Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.
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God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.
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The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.
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It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Lord and still a Virgin.
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I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.
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Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.
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The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.