so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“a right faith in Christ is an incomparable treasure, carrying with it universal salvation and preserving from all evil,” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Therefore, when some say good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so good and nothing so evil but that it shall work together for good to me, if only I… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Our faith in Christ does not free us from works but from false opinions concerning works, that is, from the foolish presumption… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust be right, then… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith. — 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
The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“God the Father has made everything to depend on faith, so that whosoever has it has all things, and he who has… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love]. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep. And this you may do by inveighing… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“He who has once forsaken God finds it impossible to abide by one definite deity, that is, in one religion or definite… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be… — 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
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