Martin Luther Quotes
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Pray, and let God worry.
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Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God-- Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart Whose Word cannot be broken. I'll trust in God's unchanging Word Till soul and body sever, For, though all things shall pass away, HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER!
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Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
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Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage.
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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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Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?
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Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
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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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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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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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What is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.
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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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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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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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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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Dieser yrthum von freyen willen ist eyn eygen Artickel des Endchrist.
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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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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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so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.
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Forgiveness is God's command.
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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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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.