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Martin Luther Quotes about Church

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May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the

May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.

Christian, Believe, Church

Martin Luther “Day by Day We Magnify You: Daily Readings for the Entire Year”, Augsburg Books

The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.

Believe, Darkness, Church

Martin Luther (2009). “Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional”, p.182, Zondervan

The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.

Church, Failing, Social

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

Church, Young, Ifs

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

Believe, People, Church

"The Complete Sermons of Martin Luther, Volume 1".

If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.

People, Church, Needs

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Fear, Church, Body

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

Christian, Church, Want

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

Christian, Church, Firsts

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Evil, Church, Wickedness

Colloquia Mensalia ch. 2 (1566) (translation by Henry Bell)

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

Prayer, Blood, Church

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 468, 1895.

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

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

Church, Together, Matter

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

Church, Mass

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

Church, Going To Church, Irony

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

Church, Matter, Individual

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

Church, Doctrine, Hours

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

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

Father, People, Church

Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles... We are beggars: this is true.

Years, Church, Baptists

When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.

Church

Martin Luther (1956). “Devotions and prayers”, Baker Pub Group

No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.

Men, Hands, Church

Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

Church, Triumph, Wonder

Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.

Evil, Wish, Church

"Dictata super Psalterium (Dictations on the Psalter)" in "D. Martin Luthers Werke: kritische Gesamtausgabe" by Herman Bohlau Weimar, Volume 3, (p. 445), 1883.

It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

Order, People, Church

"Luther". Book by Hartmann Grisar, vol. 4, p. 126, 1915.

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.

Children, Effort, Church

Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.101, Lulu.com

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