Martin Luther Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Reading, Biblical

• The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Law, Appreciate

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.75, Lulu.com

• It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?

  Martin Luther

  Education, Cheer, Fun

• When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

  Martin Luther

  Desire, Spirit, Changed

  Martin Luther (1823). “Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-will. First Pub. in the Year of Our Lord 1525”, p.60

• No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Desire, Gowns

• I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Mean, People

• Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.

  Martin Luther

  Desire, Speak, Christ

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.97

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