The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“God the Father has made everything to depend on faith, so that whosoever has it has all things, and he who has… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience… — 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
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
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of… — 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
The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition… — 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
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
“Either Christ must live and the Law perish, or the Law remains and Christ must perish; Christ and the Law cannot dwell… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Some pastors are lazy and no good” by Martin Luther “Some pastors and preachers are lazy and no good. They rely on… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Hence the best service that anybody can render God is diligently to hear and read God's Word.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes… — 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
True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. — 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
Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“a right faith in Christ is an incomparable treasure, carrying with it universal salvation and preserving from all evil,” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without… — 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
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
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
“God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.” — Martin Luther Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
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
“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Romans 3:28” — Martin Luther Copy Share
Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul… — Martin Luther Copy Share
It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators. — Martin Luther Copy Share