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Martin Luther Quotes - Page 22

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It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.

It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.

Evolution, Almighty, All Things

"Luther's Works: Word and sacrament".

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Song, Godly, Giving

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

Wise, Women, Gowns

Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.367

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

Men, Lost, Feels

Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.

Teacher, Augustine, Judgment

Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Word and sacrament”

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

Teaching, Doe, May

"Luther's Works, Volume 39: Church and Ministry I" by by Helmut T. Lehman, edited by Eric W. Gritsch, Augsburg Fortress Press, (p. 249), 1986.

If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth

Lying, Cities, Mouths

Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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.

Faith, Temptation, Battle

It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.

Blessing, Evil, Vineyards

Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and riches of his own faith.

Christian, Men, Joy

Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas More, Martin Luther (2005). “Influential Thinkers of the Renaissance”, p.385, Cosimo, Inc.

The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

Saving, Life Or Death, Casts

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.

Love, Children, Husband

"Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis".

Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.

Farewell, Wrath, Dragons

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.

Wise, Fighting, Silence

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

Wheat, Wonder, Grain

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Crowns, Virtue, Obedience

Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.

Night, Men, Skills

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

But the power of God cannot be so determined and measured, for it is uncircumscribed and immeasurable, beyond and above all that is or may be. On the other hand, it must be essentially present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf.

Tree, Evolution, Leafs

"Works".

Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.

Giving, Promise, Castles

But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

Names, Secret, Praying

Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out.

Pennies, Saved, Paid

"What Luther Says". Book by Martin Luther, Section on "Life, Human," No. 2438, 1959.

In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.

Christian, Prayer, Order

"What Luther says: an anthology".

I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.

Healing, Doctors, Skills

Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.317

Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be painted on houses, on the inside and the outside, so that all can see it. That would be a Christian work... If it is not a sin but good to have the image of Christ in my heart, why should it be a sin to have it in my eyes? This is especially true since the heart is more important than the eyes, and should be less stained by sin because it is the true abode and dwelling place of God.

Christian, Art, Eye

It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.

Men, Evil, Grace

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