Martin Luther Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

  Martin Luther

  Memorial Day, Peace, Ubuntu

  "On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

• Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise.

  Martin Luther

  Night, Justice Of God, Doors

• A unjust law, is no law at all.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Justice, Unjust

• God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, ... are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Justice, Heaven

  "Let Your Sins Be Strong". A Letter From Luther to Melanchthon, Letter no. 99, AUgust 1, 1521.

• God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Justice

• Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

  Martin Luther

  Justice, Lasts, Ends

  "On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

• While we contemplate in all creatures, as in a mirror, those immense riches of His wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not meerly run them over cursorily, and, so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length, turn them over in our mind seriously and faithfully and recollect them repeatedly.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Mirrors, Justice

• We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

  Martin Luther

  Running, Fighting, Justice

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