Quotes from Martin Luther
"Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God."
- Martin Luther
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
- Martin Luther
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
- Martin Luther
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
- Martin Luther
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
- Martin Luther
Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.
- Martin Luther
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.
- Martin Luther
I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
- Martin Luther
O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.
- Martin Luther
He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.
- Martin Luther
We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'
- Martin Luther
The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.
- Martin Luther