Martin Luther Quotes
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All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.
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I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.
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The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
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We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.
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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.
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The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
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Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.
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Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.
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Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.
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Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
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We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
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The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.
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An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.
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If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.
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Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.
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As to why some are touched by the law and others not, so that some receive and others scorn the offer of grace...this is the hidden will of God, Who, according to His own counsel, ordains such persons as He wills to receive and partake of the mercy preached and offered.
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I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.
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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
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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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Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and riches of his own faith.