Martin Luther
Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.Collection: Believe
If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.Collection: Preaching The Gospel
God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.Collection: Doe
Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.Collection: Law
The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.Collection: Way
Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you. This praise of work should be inscribed on all tools, on the forehead and the faces that sweat from toiling.Collection: Blessing
This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.Collection: Errors
We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.Collection: Religious
The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the Spirit. Thus all Christians must became priests, children of God and co-heirs with Christ the Most High Priest.Collection: Christian
Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favour that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace.Collection: Christian
Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.Collection: Bible
Stubbornness should have been my middle name.Collection: Should Have
The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.Collection: Faith
Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.Collection: Two
Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.Collection: Giving
Thoughts are not subject to duty.Collection: Duty
A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.Collection: Real
I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.Collection: Prayer
I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.Collection: Father
Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.Collection: Fruit
I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.Collection: Children
Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.Collection: Children
I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.Collection: Prayer
Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.Collection: Christian
If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.Collection: Country
All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.Collection: Kings
No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.Collection: Christian
We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.Collection: Strong
God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.Collection: Promise
When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.Collection: Heart
For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.Collection: Faith
Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.Collection: Church
That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk.Collection: Character
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.Collection: Art
I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.Collection: Reading
This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.Collection: Reason Why
That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.Collection: Stars
Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.Collection: Waiting
At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely.Collection: Death
what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Men
There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.Collection: Education
I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.Collection: Memories
The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer & more certain than sense & life itself.Collection: Heart
As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and does not utterly despair of himself, and so is not humbled before God. Such a man plans out for himself a position, an occasion, a work, which shall bring him final salvation, but which will not.Collection: Men
Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.Collection: Song
Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.Collection: Church
I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.Collection: Today
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?Collection: People