Martin Luther Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Suffering, Religion

• If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Fighting, Silence

• Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.

  Martin Luther

  Suffering, Doe, Knowing God

• This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from eternal death. It is His kingdom and His ministry, to preach the Gospel to the poor; that is His purpose. For to the great and holy He cannot come. They do not wish to be counted sinners, and therefore do not need His Gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Suffering

  Martin Luther “Day by Day We Magnify You: Daily Readings for the Entire Year”, Augsburg Books

• Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Suffering, Study

• The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Believe, Exercise

  Martin Luther (2002). “Commentary on Galatians, Luther”, p.158, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

• The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?

  Martin Luther

  People, Rose, Enemy

• Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favour that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Grace, Risk

• Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Children, Pain

  Martin Luther (1956). “The sermon on the mount and the magnificat”

• God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

  Martin Luther

  Suffering, Crosses, Found

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.70, Fortress Press

• No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

  Martin Luther

  Adversity, Men, Suffering

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.270

• Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them and to do them honour simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would commend the Jews. And if this is not enough, let him tell the Jews to use his mouth as a privy, or else crawl into the Jew's hind parts, and there worship the holy thing, so as afterwards to be able to boast of having been merciful, and of having helped the Devil and his progeny to blaspheme our dear Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Worst Enemy, Order, Dear Lord

• Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Suffering

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.252

• Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they in
  comparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Blessed, Thinking

  Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.109

• Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Suffering, Speak

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