Martin Luther Quotes
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It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.
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The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.
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It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
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What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.
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Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.
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Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.
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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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We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.
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Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above faith and giving out below love.
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One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.
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Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.
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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
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Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.
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When I am assailed with heavy tribulations, I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away. So the human heart, unless it be occupied with some employment, leaves space for the devil, who wriggles himself in and brings with him a whole host of evil thoughts, temptations, and tribulations, which grind out the heart.
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Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.
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Great God, what do I see and hear! The end of things created! The judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of glory seated! The trumpet sounds; the graves restore, The dead which they contained before; Prepare, my soul, to meet Him!
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Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
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No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.
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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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Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover.
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Your thoughts of God are too human.
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Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.
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In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.