Quotes About Faith

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. And to be steady on all the battle fields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

Hier stehe Ich. Ich kann nicht anders.

Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture.

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers—not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

If we do not love God and His Word what difference does it make if we love anything at all?

Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

You must learn to call on the Lord. Don't sit all alone or lie on the couch, shaking your head and letting your thoughts torture you. Don't worry about how to get out of your situation or brood about your terrible life, how miserable you feel, and what a bad person you are. Instead, say, "Get a grip on yourself, you lazy bum! Fall on your knees, and raise your hands and eyes toward heaven. Read a psalm. Say the Lord's Prayer, and tearfully tell God what you need.

Hier stehe Ich, Ich kann nicht anders." ("Here I stand, I can do no other")

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

He who believes God, recognizes Him as true and faithful, and himself as a liar; for he mistrusts his own thinking as false, and trusts the Word of God as being true, though it absolutely contradicts his own reasoning.

One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.