The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ. — 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
That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people… — Martin Luther Copy Share
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.… — 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
What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice:… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful. — 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
I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and… — 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
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
“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 is acquired by works. Faith redeems, corrects, and preserves our consciences so that we know that righteousness does not consist in works, although works neither can nor ought to be wanting; just as we cannot be… — Martin Luther Copy Share
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