Martin Luther Quotes
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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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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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Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.
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God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.
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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.
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No great saint lived without errors.
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God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.
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A unjust law, is no law at all.
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A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.
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Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.
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Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.
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Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.
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Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.
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Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.
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The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.
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If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.
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This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.
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The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.
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God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.