If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.
MARTIN LUTHERIf ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.
MARTIN LUTHERGod writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
MARTIN LUTHERIf you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
MARTIN LUTHERWhoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.
MARTIN LUTHERPray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.
MARTIN LUTHERSpare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
MARTIN LUTHERA gospel that doesn’t deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.
MARTIN LUTHERLord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.
MARTIN LUTHERAs long as we live there is never enough singing.
MARTIN LUTHERGod created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
MARTIN LUTHEREven if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
MARTIN LUTHERThe kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the ‘doers of the word’ in faith and love, and not the ‘mere hearers,’ who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.
MARTIN LUTHERThe most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.
MARTIN LUTHERStrange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
MARTIN LUTHERWhoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father’s heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.
MARTIN LUTHERHe [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.
MARTIN LUTHER