The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin. — 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
The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law.… — 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
The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In contrast to ethical relativism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Each one should become as it were a Christ to the other that we may be Christs to one another and Christ… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Wherefore it ought to be the first concern of every Christian to lay aside all confidence in works and increasingly to strengthen… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form… — 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
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that by its soundness… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from… — 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
If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses? — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy — 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
As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him:… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition… — 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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