Quotes from Martin Luther

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

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.

I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

Faith is the yes of the heart.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.

Faith is under the left nipple.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.

The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.

A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.