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Martin Luther Quotes - Page 20

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Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.

Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.

Country, Law, Church

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

Real, Land, Bird

The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came to us in our flesh, laid himself into the womb of his mother and into the manger and went on to the cross. This was the ladder that he placed on earth so that we might ascend to God on it. This is the way you must take.

Mother, Humility, Son

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

Love, Marriage, Sentimental

Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

Fruit, Failing, Heard

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Martin Luther (1841). “Life of Martin Luther”, p.165

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.

Christian, Evil, Temptation

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

When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.

Heart, Doubt, Arms

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

Men, Want, Christ

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Wish, Satan, Beast

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

Church, Together, Matter

All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.

Children, Struggle, Home

There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

Christian, Heart, Mind

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.

Heart, Space, Pigs

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

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Education, Book, Action

Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.

Faith, Eight, World

Luther, Martin (2000). “The Complete Sermons of Martin Luther: Volume 4”, p.309, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.

Blood, Heaven, Earth

Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

Prayer, Let Me, Fewer

God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.

Doe, Worthy, God's Love

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

Clergymen, Preacher, Defects

Martin Luther, Johann Aurifaber, Anton Lauterbach, Henry Bell (1832). “Luther's Table Talk: Or, Some Choice Fragments from the Familiar Discourse of that Godly, Learned Man, and Famous Champion of God's Truth, Martin Luther”, p.232

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

Men, Hair, Heaven

Martin Luther (1989). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

Ambition, Men, Office

No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

Help And Support, Community, May

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

Violence, Lord, Great Things

Martin Luther (1967). “Table talk”

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

Evil, Overcoming, Anticipation

Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.146

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

Faith, Maids, Reason

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