God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything… I let the Word do its work! — 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
If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our… — 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
I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished ... — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“For "to love" means to hate oneself and to condemn oneself, according to Christ's saying in John 12:25: "He that hateth his… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I felt that I had been born anew and that the gates of heaven had been opened. The whole of Scripture gained… — 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
All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Thus, to serve one another through love, that is to instruct him that goeth astray, to comfort the afflicted, to raise up… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Love is not only pure joy, and delight, but also great and deep heaviness of heart and sorrow. But love too is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Now, you can stand it when your body emits a stench before you realize it, or when it festers and becomes pussy… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“With reference to the elect we might distinguish between three classes. First, there are those who are satisfied with God’s will, as… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“14. The imperfect health [of soul], that is to say, the imperfect love, of the dying brings with it, of necessity, great… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — 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