Martin Luther Quotes About Temptation

Quotes about: Temptation

• Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

  Martin Luther

  Sports, Drinking, Beer

• Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

  Martin Luther

  Hair, Bird, Temptation

• When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

  Martin Luther

  Anger, Writing, Temptation

• When I am assailed with heavy tribulations, I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away. So the human heart, unless it be occupied with some employment, leaves space for the devil, who wriggles himself in and brings with him a whole host of evil thoughts, temptations, and tribulations, which grind out the heart.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Space, Pigs

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.275

• Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Temptation, Battle

• The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.

  Martin Luther

  Practice, Giving, Temptation

  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.3

• You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Evil, Temptation

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia Publishing House

• The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Blood, Temptation

• My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

  Martin Luther

  Temptation, Divinity, Masters

• God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Hate, Temptation

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.40

• Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.

  Martin Luther

  Gratitude, Office, Temptation

• I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

  Martin Luther

  Reading, Writing, Practice

• For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

  Martin Luther

  Thinking, Fire, Temptation

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.85, Sheba Blake Publishing

• 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

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