Martin Luther Quotes About Glory

Quotes about: Glory

• When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Wife, Style

  Martin Luther, Jules Michelet (1846). “The Life of Luther”, p.262

• This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

  Martin Luther

  Healing, Exercise, Thought Provoking

  Martin Luther (1943). “Works of Martin Luther”

• Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

  Martin Luther

  New Year, Spiritual, Angel

  Martin Luther, “From Heaven Above To Earth I Come”

• Those who turn proud when their praise is sounded, who seek their own glory, not Christ's, or those who are moved by slanders and by infamy, had better leave the ministry of the Word.

  Martin Luther

  Ministry, Proud, Christ

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

• Great God, what do I see and hear!
  The end of things created!
  The judge of mankind doth appear
  On clouds of glory seated!
  The trumpet sounds; the graves restore,
  The dead which they contained before;
  Prepare, my soul, to meet Him!

  Martin Luther

  Clouds, Judging, Soul

• A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God

  Martin Luther

  Cows, Milk, Glory

• Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Lying, Eye

  "On the Jews and Their Lies". Book by Martin Luther, 1543.

• It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Men, Medicine

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1960). “Career of the Reformer”

• The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

  Martin Luther

  Quests, Glory, Satisfied

• Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Mean, People

  Martin Luther (1987). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.356, Kregel Publications

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