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Martin Luther Quotes about Evil

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The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

Men, Evil, Grace

In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.

Book, Light, Evil

Martin Luther (1848). “The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther”, p.2

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Men, Evil, Good Man

The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.

Christian, Evil, Mountain

Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in disguise.

Fire, Blood, Evil

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)

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

...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

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

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

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

Evil, Choices, Free Will

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

Music, Heart, Evil

This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer ours but Christ's; and the righteousness of Christ is not Christ's but ours. He has emptied himself of his righteousness that he might clothe us in it, and fill us with it: and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us from them.

Spiritual, Taken, Evil

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

Hate, Evil

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.

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