Quotes about Trust
Accordingly, let us, too, learn to put aside all questions and simply to go in the name of the Lord and do whatever God has commanded, whether it is foolish, offensive, or dangerous. If God's command is connected with it, even a work that is disgraceful and shameful in the sight of reason is most beautiful and holy; for there is no greater and better adornment than the Word of God.
- Martin Luther
This is my answer to those also who accuse me of rejecting all the holy teachers of the church. I do not reject them. But everyone, indeed, knows that at times they have erred, as men will; therefore, I am ready to trust them only when they give me evidence for their opinions from Scripture, which has never erred. This St. Paul bids me to do in I Thess. 5:21, where he says, 'Test everything; hold fast what is good.
- Martin Luther
Through this experience Your Royal Majesty should learn to trust solely in the true Father who is in heaven, to find your comfort in the true Bridegroom, Jesus Christ, who is also our Brother, indeed our flesh and blood, and to take delight in your real friends and true companions, the holy angels, who surround us and take care of us.
- Martin Luther
We must pray and do our daily work, but everything we do must flow from faith.
- Martin Luther
In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.
- Martin Luther
since God is always to be called on, therefore one must always be in trouble.
- Martin Luther
Though my enemies and all the world oppress me, persecute me, and drive me out, I still have a Lord who is, and wants to be, my Lord because God has promised this to me.
- Martin Luther
God is both willing and able to help.
- Martin Luther
God is both willing and able to help. He gives health, happiness, and salvation. You can depend on this.
- Martin Luther
I say the Gospel is frail because we are frail.
- Martin Luther
He is a God to us and dispenses everything bountifully also when everything is most hopeless.
- Martin Luther
The world glories and trusts in honor, power, riches, and the favor of men. Our psalm, however, glories in none of these, for they are all uncertain and perishable.
- Martin Luther