Martin Luther Quotes
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Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.
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Your thoughts of God are too human.
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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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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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Our plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.
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God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.
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He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.
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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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Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.
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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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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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Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.
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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.
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Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.
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It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.
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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 Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.
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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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No great saint lived without errors.