Martin Luther Quotes
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If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.
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O, this faith is a living, busy, active, powerful thing! It is impossible that it should not be ceaselessly doing that which is good. It does not even ask whether good works should be done; but before the question can be asked, it has done them, and it is constantly engaged in doing them. But he who does not do such works, is a man without faith. He gropes and casts about him to find faith and good works, not knowing what either of them is, and yet prattles and idly multiplies words about faith and good works.
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We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
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Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.
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One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.
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The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
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As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
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Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
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Whoso hearkens not to God's voice, is an idolator, though he perform the highest and most heavy service of God.
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Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
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A woman has no control over herself.
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God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
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Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.
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What the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.
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It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.
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When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.
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We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.
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God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.
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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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God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.
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A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.
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Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.
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Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.
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Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.