Martin Luther Quotes - Page 28

Quotes about:

• Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .

  Martin Luther

  Promise, Looks

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

  4 Copy quote

• Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

  Martin Luther

  Hurtful, Rebel, Doe

  Martin Luther, Jene M. Porter (1974). “Luther: Selected Political Writings”, Philadelphia : Fortress Press

  9 Copy quote

• What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?

  Martin Luther

  Faithfulness, Mundane

  7 Copy quote

• Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Order, Discipline

  7 Copy quote

• We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Soul, Grace

  5 Copy quote

• Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Scary, Doers

  Martin Luther, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Samuel Simon Schmucker (1860). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.349

  5 Copy quote

• Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Men, Dumb

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

  7 Copy quote

• He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.

  Martin Luther

  Four, Scripture, Theologian

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

  5 Copy quote

• The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Children, Humor

  4 Copy quote

• The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and necessary to life here below, are vain and of no effect as to what concerns the life eternal.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Scripture, Philosopher

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.4

  4 Copy quote

• To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.

  Martin Luther

  Comfort, Rebel, Calling

  4 Copy quote

• It is the most ungodly and dangerous business to abandon the certain and revealed will of God in order to search in to the hidden mysteries of God.

  Martin Luther

  Order, Mystery, Certain

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table talk”

  4 Copy quote

• True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Spring, Heart

  Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Martin Luther (1841). “Life of Martin Luther”, p.168

  5 Copy quote

• It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

  Martin Luther

  Mean, Littles, Life Is

  4 Copy quote

• Oh! how great and glorious a thing it is to have before one the Word of God! With that we may at all times feel joyous and secure; we need never be in want of consolation, for we see before us, in all its brightness, the pure and right way.

  Martin Luther

  Needs, May, Want

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.9

  4 Copy quote

• We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Example, Three

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.105

  4 Copy quote

• The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.

  Martin Luther

  Grace, Merit, Saved

  4 Copy quote

• This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer ours but Christ's; and the righteousness of Christ is not Christ's but ours. He has emptied himself of his righteousness that he might clothe us in it, and fill us with it: and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us from them.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Taken, Evil

  5 Copy quote

• A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God

  Martin Luther

  Cows, Milk, Glory

  7 Copy quote

• Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.

  Martin Luther

  Work, Book, Failure

  7 Copy quote

• Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Maternity, Born

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.347, Gideon House Books

  8 Copy quote

• If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Grace, Accepting, Willing

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

  7 Copy quote

• If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

  Martin Luther

  People, Risk, Missionary

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.18, Anchor

  8 Copy quote

• A unjust law, is no law at all.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Justice, Unjust

  8 Copy quote

• I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him: "You, Pope, I will not have you for my boss, for I am sure that my doctrine is divine.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Humble, Boss

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.28, Lulu.com

  8 Copy quote

Page 28 of 39

First

← Prev

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

32

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin