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Martin Luther Quotes - Page 25

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I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

Wife, Doe, Scripture

Letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück (An Den Kanzler Brück), (January 13, 1524) in "Dr. Martin Luther's Briefe, Sendschreiben und Bedenken: volständig aus den verschiedenen Ausgaben seiner Werke und Briefe, aus andern Büchern und noch unbenutzten Handschriten gesammelt" by Martin Luther, 1825.

Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

New Year, Spiritual, Angel

Martin Luther, “From Heaven Above To Earth I Come”

what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.

World, Fool, Return

Martin Luther, Eugene F. A. Klug (1996). “Sermons of Martin Luther: The House Postils”, Baker Publishing Group

I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order....when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction - to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon.

Love Is, Order, Weapons

Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.

Pope, Obedience, Antichrist

"The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers" by LeRoy Edwin Froom, Vol. 2, (p. 121), 1950.

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

Religious, Humor, Sight

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

Peace, Ubuntu, Tree

All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

Prayer, Praying, Heard

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

Drunk, Sides, Human Nature

The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.

Faith, Laughter, Heart

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

Religious, Humor, Land

Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.

Angel, Wicked, Holy

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

Effectiveness, Thought Provoking, Grows

Martin Luther (1967). “Table talk”

Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.

Christmas, Children, Angel

Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness - this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain.

Healing, Mean, Law

"The Freedom of a Christian" by Martin Luther, 1520.

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Wrath, Law, Grace

Martin Luther (1962). “Early theological works”, London, S.C.M.,P

The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.

Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

Martin Luther (1830). “A Commentary on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.402

God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

Father, Spring, Heart

What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.

Prayer, Thinking, Firsts

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.

Christian, Strong, Lying

Martin Luther, cited by his secretary, in a letter in Max Lenz, ed., "Briefwechsel Landgraf Philips des Grossmuthigen von Hessen mit Bucer", vol. 1; in "Lying: Moral Choice In Public and Private Life‎" by Sissela Bok, New York: Pantheon Books, (p. 47), 1978.

What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

Heaven, Needs, Mercy

The Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand, it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand, it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so the soul will have a chance after it is changed.

Christian, Men, Hands

When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.

Jesus, Names, Grace

In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart.

Spiritual, Spring, Heart

He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.

Fall, Heart, Sight

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

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