Holy Quotes by Martin Luther

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.

— Martin Luther

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

— Martin Luther

Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.

— Martin Luther

The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.

— Martin Luther

The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.

— Martin Luther

Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.

— Martin Luther

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

— Martin Luther

Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.

— Martin Luther

The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions…

— Martin Luther

The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which…

— Martin Luther

Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost…

— Martin Luther

The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the…

— Martin Luther

If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given…

— Martin Luther

The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the…

— Martin Luther

I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons,…

— Martin Luther

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the…

— Martin Luther

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

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did…

— Martin Luther

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

For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they…

— Martin Luther

The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests,…

— Martin Luther

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal,…

— Martin Luther

I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy…

— Martin Luther

The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy…

— Martin Luther

Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all -…

— Martin Luther

In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It…

— Martin Luther

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

The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first…

— Martin Luther

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy…

— Martin Luther

The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make…

— Martin Luther

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide…

— Martin Luther

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures…

— Martin Luther

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to…

— Martin Luther

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for…

— Martin Luther

Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to…

— Martin Luther

One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word…

— Martin Luther

The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle,…

— Martin Luther

From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give…

— Martin Luther

If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake - if anyone set up its observance on a Jewish…

— Martin Luther

It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church.…

— Martin Luther