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Martin Luther Quotes - Page 7

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This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

Healing, Exercise, Thought Provoking

Martin Luther (1943). “Works of Martin Luther”

Faith is the yes of the heart.

Heart

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

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Hope, Done, World

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

Tree, Born, Thee

I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him

Laughing, Devil, Faces

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Laughter, Humor, Laughing

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Men, Evil, Good Man

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

Prayer, Hate, Temptation

Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.40

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

Christian, Law, Preaching The Gospel

Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!

Spiritual, Hero, Sick

"Early theological works".

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

Prayer, Suffering, Study

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

Fighting, Soldier, Shepherds

Martin Luther (1818). “The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell”, p.241

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Softball, Christian, Prayer

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

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

Faith, Kings, Sacrifice

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Friendship, Christian, Prayer

Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.

Delay, May

The cross alone is our theology.

Crosses, Theology

Martin Luther (1903). “The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther, the Hero of the Reformation, the Greatest of the Teuton Church Fathers, and the Father of Protestant Church Literature. Based on the Kaiser Chronological Ed. with Reference to the Erlangen and Walch Eds”

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Money, People, Giving

The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

Heart, Depth, Mary

"Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works" translated by William J. Cole, Volume 10, (p. 313),

Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.

Believe, Feelings, Deceiving

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

People, Needs, Mouths

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

Scripture, Christ, Remove

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Political, Despair, Mountain

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Believe, Feelings, Lord

Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.

Spring, Long, Doe

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