Martin Luther Quotes
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Our stubbornness is right, because we want to preserve the liberty which we have in Christ. Only by preserving our liberty shall we be able to retain the truth of the Gospel inviolate.
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One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
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Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the holy Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing.
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First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
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Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
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Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.
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What is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.
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Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.
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For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.
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Pray, and let God worry.
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Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?
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so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.
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If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
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Dieser yrthum von freyen willen ist eyn eygen Artickel des Endchrist.
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In short, I will preach it the Word, teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.
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When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
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The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.
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There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
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This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.
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Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
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In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.
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Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.
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He Christ died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.