Martin Luther Quotes
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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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I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.
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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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At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely.
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Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.
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The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
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Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.
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A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
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The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.
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The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.
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I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.
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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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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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If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.
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The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten.
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Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"
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To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.
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The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him.
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It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.
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In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart.
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If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.
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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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An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.