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
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 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
“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
“Thus the sum and substance of all doctrine is this, that we are not justified by any works, but that faith in… — 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
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
“Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.” — 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
“For wherever there is faith, there come a hundred evil thoughts, a hundred strugglings more than before; only see to it that… — 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
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
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves? — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“When some people say, as they do, that when we preach faith alone good works are forbidden, it is as if I… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to… — 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
