Martin Luther Quotes
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Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.
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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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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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God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.
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Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.
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Thoughts are not subject to duty.
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Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.
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As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.
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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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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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It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.
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Your thoughts of God are too human.
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No great saint lived without errors.
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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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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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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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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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Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.
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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.