“The world bears the Gospel a grudge because the Gospel condemns the religious wisdom of the world.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“you have quite dampened by spirit and eagerness, and left me exhausted before I could strike a blow. There are two reasons… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by… — 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
Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness. — 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
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
“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
War is a plague it destroys states it destroys religion it destroys families — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer. — 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
What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your… — 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
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
“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
“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