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We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.

We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.

Martin Luther
Needs, Forget, Forget It

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Martin Luther
Inspirational, God, Religious

Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

Martin Luther
Safe, Scripture, Helping
1521 Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of Worms, 18 Apr.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

Martin Luther
Faith, Christian, People

From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.

Martin Luther
Dream, Fall, Angel

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

Martin Luther
Funny, Drinking, Sleep

Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.

Martin Luther
Religious, Done, Praying

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

Martin Luther
Jesus, Might, Sin

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Martin Luther
Humility, Long, World

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Martin Luther
Life, God, Christian

A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

Martin Luther
Miserable, Ass, Fart

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Martin Luther
Faith, Christian, Becoming

We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.

Martin Luther
Prayer, Believe, Men

It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do!

Martin Luther
Bother, Knows

When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.

Martin Luther
Comfort, Satan, Christ

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Martin Luther
Faith, Truth, Cost

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

Martin Luther
Giving, Suffering, Religion

The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

Martin Luther
Country, Character, Men

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

Martin Luther
Prayer, Powerful, Believe

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

Martin Luther
Inspirational, Music, God

We must make a great difference between God's Word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth, yea, greater than death and hell, for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly.

Martin Luther
Men, Air, Differences
Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.20

The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

Martin Luther
Christian, Children, Teaching

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

Martin Luther
Growing, Process, Finished
Martin Luther (1943). “Works of Martin Luther”

I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.

Martin Luther
Education, Children, Heart

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

Martin Luther
Drink, Fountain, Remarkable
Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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