Quotes About Faith

inward holiness in the spirit before God. And this is the reason specially why he said this, in order to show that there is nothing holy but that holiness which God produces within us.

Nothing is more familiar or characteristic among Christians than assertion. Take away assertions, and you take away Christianity.

he says "firm place" because spiritual goods do not persist in themselves but in God, from whom they gush forth without ceasing.

This is shown by the history of Saul. Although he had sinned against the voice of the Lord, this would have been forgiven him if he had not added a defense of his sin and said (1 Sam. 15:13), "I have performed the commandments of the Lord.

VIII. Beyond all this is the highest stage of faith, when; God punishes the conscience not only with temporal sufferings, but with death, hell, and sin, and refuses grace and mercy, as though it were His will to condemn and to be angry eternally. This few men experience, but David cries out in Psalm vi, "O Lord, rebuke me not in Thine anger." To believe at such times that God, in His mercy, is pleased with us, is the highest work that can be done by and in the creature;

A man is called 'spiritually poor,' not because he has no money or anything of his own, but because he does not covet it or set his comfort and trust upon it as though it were his kingdom of heaven.

No flesh, not even that of the true believer, is so completely under the influence of the Spirit that it will not bite or devour, or at least neglect, the commandment of love.

He is wonderful in His Holy One because He brings Him into tribulation and thus crowns Him.

The law is not made for a righteous man" (1 Tim. i. 9). This is that Christian liberty, our faith, the effect of which is, not that we should be careless or lead a bad life, but that no one should need the law or works for justification and salvation.

And if what they claim were true, why have Holy Scripture at all? Of what use is Scripture?

And so Paul says that Abraham's faith was imputed to him for righteousness, because by it he gave glory to God; and that to us also, for the same reason, it shall be imputed for righteousness, if we believe (Rom. iv.).

Works, since they are irrational things, cannot glorify God, although they may be done to the glory of God, if faith be present.

It is indeed pitiful that a monk who does nothing else night and day except chastise his body achieves nothing by this diligence than to be cast into the flames of hell.

No, he joins the three Persons in the one work of blessing — God the Father, God the Shepherd, and the Angel.

When the article of justification is lost, nothing remains except error, hypocrisy, godlessness, and idolatry.

The third occurrence of the words4 fits our own and the last times, where the lukewarm, the presumptuous, and those easily offended abound, whom of all people it is most difficult to move forward to better things.

The truth is, I am all sin.

as the apostle says, Phil 3:13, it forgets the things that are behind and always stretches out to the things that are ahead.

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace into idolatry.

Wer ein Christ sein will, der steche seiner Vernunft die Augen aus.

We all shouldn't try to do the same work. Rather, each of us should pay attention to our own responsibilities. Otherwise, we cannot be of one mind and one heart. We must allow the works to be varied so that each of us can remain with what God has entrusted to us. We should simply do the work at hand.

He lives and reigns who saved the three youths from the fiery furnace of the king of Babylon, and if He will not save me, my head is worth nothing compared with Christ.

For we have vowed enough in baptism, more than we can ever fulfill; if we give ourselves to the keeping of this one vow, we shall have all we can do.

Therefore Augustine was right when he said: "The external works of the Godhead are indivisible.