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
“God once spoke through the mouth of an ass. I will tell you straight what I think. I am a Christian theologian… — 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
If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less… — 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
“God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.” — 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
“Either Christ must live and the Law perish, or the Law remains and Christ must perish; Christ and the Law cannot dwell… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only… — 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
[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but… — 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
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
“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
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
“So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Gospel bestows all good things spiritual: forgiveness of sins, true righteousness, peace of conscience, everlasting life; and all good things temporal: good… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Our faith is an astounding thing-astounding that I should believe him to be the Son of God who is suspended on the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Virtually the whole of the scriptures and the understanding of the whole of theology—the entire Christian life, even—depends upon the true understanding… — 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
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are… — 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