Quotes from Martin Luther

The greedy misuse the world by striving to acquire it.

The sin and wrath which Moses arouses through his ministry that Prophet cancels through righteousness and grace by His ministry.

Therefore when we are afflicted and disciplined, our heart must be aroused against the feeling of evil, and we must say (cf. Ps. 118:17): "I shall not die, but I shall live, however different it may appear. Although I may, indeed, be compelled to despair of myself, I shall nevertheless hope in Him who made all things out of nothing and can restore me intact after being reduced to nothing, to my very great benefit and that of others.

But whoever wants to call upon God, regardless of where he may be in the world, must turn His face heavenward to Christ and thus come to God through Christ, the real and true temple. For Christ is the proper mercy seat (Rom 3:25), with whom sheer mercy, love, and kindness are found. But whoever seeks God apart from Christ will find the God described by Moses as 'a devouring fire' (Deut. 4:24).

He would like best of all to persecute us with fire and sword, but this method has availed him little because through the blood of martyrs the church has been watered.

God orders us to believe and trust in his goodness, but at the same time, we should never test him. We must take advantage of opportunities that God gives us. If we don't, we aren't living according to his plan. But we must continue to maintain our faith and hope in God.

all the popes, monks and priests were to fuse all the matter of their preaching into one mass, they would not even then teach and present as much as St.

It may be a shorter or longer account. It may be presented briefly or more extensively. But if the preachers teach us that Christ is our Savior, that we are justified by faith in him without works, then it's the same word. There is only one gospel

Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.

Every city should support its own poor, and if it was too small, the people in the surrounding villages should also be urged to contribute

It is not fitting that one man should live in idleness on another's labor, or be rich and live comfortably at the cost of another's hardship

The doers are much more enlightened in faith than the speculative, as even the philosopher says in his Metaphysics,75 that an experienced person acts more surely.