Quotes about Spirituality
To be a Christian without praying is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
- 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
Works, since they are irrational things, cannot glorify God, although they may be done to the glory of God, if faith be present.
- Martin Luther
It is indeed pitiful that a monk who does nothing else night and day except chastise his body achieves nothing by this diligence than to be cast into the flames of hell.
- Martin Luther
Faith is Individual.
- Martin Luther
It is necessary for the saints to be disciplined in this way, to descend into hell and the abyss, and to be recalled from there into heaven. For
- Martin Luther
Hence every external worship and religion is dregs, which alone are left to be drunk by those who by it exalt themselves over others.
- Martin Luther
That is, my sin drives me on, it will not give me rest or peace. Neither wine nor bread nor sleep will drive away this feeling of wrath and death.
- Martin Luther
You will thus wrong your faith, which alone bestows all things on you, and the increase of which, either by working or by suffering, is alone to be cared for.
- Martin Luther
We conclude therefore that a Christian man does not live in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbour, or else is no Christian: in Christ by faith; in his neighbour by love.
- Martin Luther
So we are not sinners because we commit this or that sin, but we commit them because we are sinners first.
- Martin Luther
Let us then consider it certain and firmly established that the soul can do without anything except the Word of God and that where the Word of God is missing there is no help at all for the soul.
- Martin Luther