Martin Luther Quotes
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Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.
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The Bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.
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Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.
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For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.
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Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
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I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die.
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God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of Another -- God alone.
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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.
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Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!
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To progress is always to begin always to begin again.
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A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out (Der Sparpfennig ist reicher denn der Zinspfenning).
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At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of totalitarianism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.
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This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
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It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.
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The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.
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It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.
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No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.
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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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Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.
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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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We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.
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Faith ever says, 'If Thou wilt,' not 'If Thou canst.'
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God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.
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We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.