Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life. — 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 first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“It is a doctrine of satan that men are no longer terrified by the law and have replaced it with a gospel… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when… — 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
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
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“One thing, and one alone, is necessary for life, justification, and Christian liberty; and that is the most holy word of God,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand, it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The people, especially in the villages, know nothing at all of Christian doctrine; and many pastors are sadly unfit and incompetent to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“the history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we… — 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
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
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
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore,… — 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
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
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
[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended. — 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 Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of… — 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
“If you consider this subject unnecessary for Christians, then please quit the field; you and I have nothing in common, for I… — 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
The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have… — 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 Image
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 Image
If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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 Image
“God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Romans 3:28” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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