When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie? — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public,… — Martin Luther Copy Share
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. — Martin Luther Copy Share
He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved,… — Martin Luther Copy Share
“God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.” — Martin Luther Copy Share
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful. — Martin Luther Copy Share
Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be… — Martin Luther Copy Share
“Our faith in Christ does not free us from works but from false opinions concerning works, that is, from the foolish presumption that justification… — Martin Luther Copy Share
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of… — Martin Luther Copy Share
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we… — Martin Luther Copy Share
“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Romans 3:28” — Martin Luther Copy Share
Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul… — Martin Luther Copy Share
It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators. — Martin Luther Copy Share
![“What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church? [...] a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.” quote by Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fe2/martin-luther-106_accepting_what-harm-would-it-do-if-a-man-told-a-go_2919130.jpg)
![“[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.” quote by Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ec2/martin-luther-106_ancient_our-plan-is-to-follow-the-example-of-the_352721.jpg)
