Martin Luther Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

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

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

  Attributed in "Talking it over" by George Sweeting, (p. 88), September 1, 1979.

• The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Religious, Prayer

• There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

  Martin Luther

  Real, Fruit, Christianity
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  There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

• Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

  Martin Luther

  Safe, Scripture, Helping

  1521 Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of Worms, 18 Apr.

• It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Religion, Neighbor

• A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christian, Becoming

• I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Three, Firsts

• Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Lying, Believe

• Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

  Martin Luther

  Family, Children, Apples

• We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Blood, Beginnings And Ends

• The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Children, Teaching

• Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

  Martin Luther

  Hair, Bird, Temptation

• For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Needs, Christianity

• The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Art, Secret

• If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Christian, Eye

• For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Heaven, Doe

  Martin Luther (1961). “Lectures on Romans”, p.4, Westminster John Knox Press

• Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

  Martin Luther

  Use, Scripture, Spirit

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

• Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Christianity, Christian Life

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

• The Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand, it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand, it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so the soul will have a chance after it is changed.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Men, Hands

• Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.

  Martin Luther

  Next, Christianity, Praise

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Liturgy and hymns”

• There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment

  Martin Luther

  Two, Calendars, Today

• Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Christianity, Lord

  Martin Luther (1948). “The Martin Luther Christmas Book”

• The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.

  Martin Luther

  Way, Few Words, Spirit

  Martin Luther “Commentary on Peter and Jude”, Kregel Publications

• At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Principles, Moral

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