Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us. — 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
The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake - if anyone set up its observance on a Jewish… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give… — 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
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favour that it would risk death a thousand times… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all -… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did… — 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
