Spirit Quotes by Martin Luther

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

— Martin Luther

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

— Martin Luther

To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him.

— Martin Luther

The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.

— Martin Luther

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

— Martin Luther

Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a…

— Martin Luther

The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which…

— Martin Luther

The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions…

— Martin Luther

If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given…

— Martin Luther

The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the…

— Martin Luther

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God.…

— Martin Luther

Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit…

— Martin Luther

Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your…

— Martin Luther

For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they…

— Martin Luther

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the…

— Martin Luther

Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favour that it would risk death a thousand times…

— Martin Luther

“If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all…

— Martin Luther

The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy…

— Martin Luther

In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could…

— Martin Luther

When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious…

— Martin Luther

We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the…

— Martin Luther

We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by…

— Martin Luther

God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet…

— Martin Luther

The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth…

— Martin Luther

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced…

— Martin Luther

Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature,…

— Martin Luther

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil…

— Martin Luther

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not…

— Martin Luther

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has…

— Martin Luther

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God.…

— Martin Luther