Martin Luther Quotes
-
God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.
-
The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.
-
Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.
-
God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.
-
There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.
-
People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.
-
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.
-
Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.
-
Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.
-
When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
-
He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.
-
You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.
-
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
-
I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.
-
If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.
-
I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.
-
When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.
-
Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe them My wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.
-
I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
-
Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?
-
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
-
Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.
-
God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.
-
When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.