Quotes from Martin Luther
inward holiness in the spirit before God. And this is the reason specially why he said this, in order to show that there is nothing holy but that holiness which God produces within us.
- Martin Luther
It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.
- Martin Luther
Nothing is more familiar or characteristic among Christians than assertion. Take away assertions, and you take away Christianity.
- Martin Luther
He says "firm place" because spiritual goods do not persist in themselves but in God, from whom they gush forth without ceasing.
- Martin Luther
It is not our business to terrify any godless person.
- Martin Luther
VIII. Beyond all this is the highest stage of faith, when; God punishes the conscience not only with temporal sufferings, but with death, hell, and sin, and refuses grace and mercy, as though it were His will to condemn and to be angry eternally. This few men experience, but David cries out in Psalm vi, "O Lord, rebuke me not in Thine anger." To believe at such times that God, in His mercy, is pleased with us, is the highest work that can be done by and in the creature;
- Martin Luther
A man is called 'spiritually poor,' not because he has no money or anything of his own, but because he does not covet it or set his comfort and trust upon it as though it were his kingdom of heaven.
- Martin Luther
Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine
- Martin Luther
No flesh, not even that of the true believer, is so completely under the influence of the Spirit that it will not bite or devour, or at least neglect, the commandment of love.
- Martin Luther
He is wonderful in His Holy One because He brings Him into tribulation and thus crowns Him.
- Martin Luther
Let us seek the sprinkling of the Spirit and the inward washing which Peter (1 Peter 1:2) calls "sprinkling with Christ's blood," by which all of us who hear and believe the Gospel of Christ are cleansed.
- Martin Luther
According to John 6:15, He [Christ] fled and would not let Himself be made king; before Pilate He confessed, "My kingdom is not of this world"; and He bade Peter, in the garden, put up his sword, and said, "He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword.
- Martin Luther