Martin Luther Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

  Martin Luther

  Friendship, Christian, Prayer

• Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Wrath, World

• Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

  Martin Luther

  Father, Son, Men

• Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Children, Father

  Martin Luther (1962). “The Christian in society”

• God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Spring, Heart

• God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

  Martin Luther

  Father, Doe, Have Faith

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.58, Anchor

• Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Heart, Eye

• Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Brother, Children

• [Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

  Martin Luther

  Father, People, Church

• I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Angel, Men

• Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Praying, Kind

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.102

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