Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes! — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Injury is done to the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or larger amount of time is devoted… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to men. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him. — 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
“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
“The Law terrorizes the conscience. The Law reveals the wrath and judgment of God. The Gospel does not threaten. The Gospel announces… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Wherefore it ought to be the first concern of every Christian to lay aside all confidence in works and increasingly to strengthen… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“PRAYER O God, our merciful Father in heaven, fill our hearts with patience under the cross, strengthen our faith, and so govern… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“A woman must be a woman and cannot be a man. She, too, is God's creature and her divine station is that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Now you tell me, when a father goes ahead and washes diapers or performs some other mean task for his child, and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, since a good nature and the Holy Spirit were joined, he had to become a distinguished poet, and there is no… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
O, this faith is a living, busy, active, powerful thing! It is impossible that it should not be ceaselessly doing that which… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Did Christ die, or did He not die? Was His death worth while, or was it not? If His death was worth… — 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
“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
