The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
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.
More Martin Luther Quotes
-
-
This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
MARTIN LUTHER -
Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.
MARTIN LUTHER -
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
MARTIN LUTHER -
I simply taught, preached, wrote God’s Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
MARTIN LUTHER -
God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.
MARTIN LUTHER -
A man cannot do good before he is made good.
MARTIN LUTHER -
The 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 LUTHER -
People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.
MARTIN LUTHER -
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
MARTIN LUTHER -
If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.
MARTIN LUTHER -
No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
MARTIN LUTHER -
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.
MARTIN LUTHER -
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
MARTIN LUTHER -
A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.
MARTIN LUTHER -
I’ll trust in God’s unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.
MARTIN LUTHER