Quotes about Religion

To mix Law and Gospel not only clouds the knowledge of grace, it cuts out Christ altogether.

I do not bother my head with speculations about the nature of God. I simply attach myself to the human Christ

Thus the Turks also regard us as damned because of the disasters and troubles we endure. But they promise themselves eternal happiness because they flourish in this life with wealth and power. This is the Egyptian philosophy and the Turkish religion. The Christian doctrine refutes it, as is taught elsewhere.

Moreover, I cannot bear with laws for the interpretation of the word of God, since the word of God, which teaches liberty in all other things, ought not to be bound.

Nothing so provokes God as unbelief, for this means denying God directly and thus committing idolatry.

For it is difficult to believe in God without an example, to be led by God as He led Abraham, a solitary individual, to see all the other peoples having an abhorrence for the religion you follow, to find that you alone believe and follow something different from all other men.

Thus it has come about that out of the Word they have made Law, out of faith works, out of truth a show; and therefore they have finally been forced to employ the sword.

To be a Christian without praying is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

He who has once forsaken God finds it impossible to abide by one definite deity, that is, in one religion or definite worship of God, just as there is an infinite succession of sins through unbelief, or the loss of faith. It

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace into idolatry.

Faith is Individual.

Thus a Christian, being consecrated by his faith, does good works; but he is not by these works made a more sacred person, or more a Christian.