Quotes from Martin Luther
All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.
- Martin Luther
Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.
- Martin Luther
One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.
- Martin Luther
Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.
- Martin Luther
Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.
- Martin Luther
Teaching is of more importance than urging.
- Martin Luther
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
- Martin Luther
I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.
- Martin Luther
I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.
- Martin Luther
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
- Martin Luther
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
- Martin Luther
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
- Martin Luther