Martin Luther Quotes About Good Works

Quotes about: Good Works

• God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, God, Religious

• Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Men, Good Man

  Martin Luther (1915). “Works of Martin Luther: With Introductions and Notes”, p.747, Library of Alexandria

• Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.

  Martin Luther

  Break Out, Good Work, Believer

• O, this faith is a living, busy, active, powerful thing! It is impossible that it should not be ceaselessly doing that which is good. It does not even ask whether good works should be done; but before the question can be asked, it has done them, and it is constantly engaged in doing them. But he who does not do such works, is a man without faith. He gropes and casts about him to find faith and good works, not knowing what either of them is, and yet prattles and idly multiplies words about faith and good works.

  Martin Luther

  Powerful, Men, Knowing

• If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Good Work, Idolatry

• Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Letters, Good Work

  Martin Luther (1818). “The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell”, p.160

• Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Dying, Scripture

• True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

  Martin Luther

  Light, Giving, Sun

• When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Men, Sick

• Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Asking Questions, Doe

• Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.

  Martin Luther

  Writing, Appearance, Good Work

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.867, Fortress Press

• O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Powerful, Creative

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.24, Anchor

• He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Doe, Benefits

• We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

  Martin Luther

  Firsts, Sin, Good Work

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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