Martin Luther Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Lambs, Want

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

• The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Hands, Grace

• Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Lying, Believe

• I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

  Martin Luther

  Truth, Integrity, Lying

  1521 Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of Worms, 18 Apr.

• There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor.

  Martin Luther

  Baby, Lying, Thinking

• What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Strong, Lying

  Martin Luther, cited by his secretary, in a letter in Max Lenz, ed., "Briefwechsel Landgraf Philips des Grossmuthigen von Hessen mit Bucer", vol. 1; in "Lying: Moral Choice In Public and Private Life‎" by Sissela Bok, New York: Pantheon Books, (p. 47), 1978.

• This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Lying, Men

• A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Bigger, Snowball

• If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Cities, Mouths

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

• Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Lambs, Sin

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

• 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.

• What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Lying, Scary

• What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Humble, Men

• The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Lying, Real

• We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Lying, Humor

• However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Religious, Art

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

• I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Compare, Snowball

  Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

• What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Lying, Men

• The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Lying, Religion

• I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Believe, Light

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

• Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Simple, Reality

• A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Snow, Balls

• If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Writing, Years

• Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Doctrine, Christ

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

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