Quotes About Truth

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that 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 battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

No great saint lived without errors.

many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

to call a man without the Holy Spirit "upright and God-fearing" is the same as calling Belial "Christ".

the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous

If you consider this subject unnecessary for Christians, then please quit the field; you and I have nothing in common, for I consider it vital.

The Gospel is true because it deprives men of all glory, wisdom, and righteousness and turns over all honor to the Creator alone. It is safer to attribute too much glory unto God than unto man.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.

The ears of our generation have been made so delicate by the senseless multitude of flatterers that, as soon as we perceive that anything of ours is not approved of, we cry out that we are being bitterly assailed; and when we can repel the truth by no other pretence, we escape by attributing bitterness, impatience, intemperance, to our adversaries.

no one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.

God once spoke through the mouth of an ass. I will tell you straight what I think. I am a Christian theologian and I am bound not only to assert, but to defend the truth with my blood and death. I want to believe freely and be a slave to the authority of no one, of a council, a university, or pope. I will confidently confess what appears to me to be true whether it has been asserted by a Catholic or a heretic, whether it has been approved or reproved by a council.