Martin Luther Quotes
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Christian life consists of faith and charity.
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Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
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The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart.
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The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.
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We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.
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He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.
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I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.
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There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
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To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.
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God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
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Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.
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There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.
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Stubbornness should have been my middle name.
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All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.
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I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.
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The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.
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If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.
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God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing.
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Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.
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By the law is the knowledge of sin Rom 3:20, so the word of grace comes only to those who are distressed by a sense of sin and tempted to despair.
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If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years.
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The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the Spirit. Thus all Christians must became priests, children of God and co-heirs with Christ the Most High Priest.
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The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.
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All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.