FastSaying

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


Martin Luther

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Our Lord has written the promise of the r...
MARTIN LUTHER Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtim...
MARTIN LUTHER She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.
CLAYBORNE CARSON What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s...
JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?”
“Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect...
JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ...
JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.”
“Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?”
“Yeah,”...
JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest.
“Hazel Grace. No. I will gran...
JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma...
JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist.
“Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�...
JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.”
“So you...
JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.”
“I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ...
JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.”
Me: “I’m okay.”
Augustus: “Okay.” (...
JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.
JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu...
J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima
JOHN GREEN But it's your life.
JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round.
JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ...
JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace.
JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and...
JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt.
JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ...
JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries..
JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu...
JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?”
“Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<...
JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.”
“This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y...
JOHN GREEN In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends.

MARK LONG There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... In Haiti, we call him our Martin Luther King.
LAVARICE GAUDIN We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
JOHN GREEN An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero...
GRAEME SIMSION I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action...
JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou...
JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted...
JOHN GREEN But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
JOHN GREEN But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying...
JOHN GREEN I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up.
AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS It had been in a Paris house, with many people around, and my dear friend Jules Darboux, wishing to ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.
JANET TURPIN MYERS Other than the Rev. Martin Luther King, no other person has had such a role in changing (the African...
KWAME KILPATRICK No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN James Earl Ray is the reason Martin Luther King Jr. is dead. A four-time loser looking for a big sco...
GERALD POSNER That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.
DEYTH BANGER We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER Seize the day, then let it go.
MARTY RUBIN Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c...
JOHN GREEN You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurt...
JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
JOHN GREEN All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th...
JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, i...
JOHN GREEN It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ...
JOHN GREEN I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up
JOHN GREEN I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus W...
JOHN GREEN I’m in love with you,” he said quietly.
"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He ...
JOHN GREEN I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
JOHN GREEN I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good...
JOHN GREEN Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says,...
JOHN GREEN I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will c...
JOHN GREEN you gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little...
JOHN GREEN

More Martin Luther

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God'...
MARTIN LUTHER Nothing good ever comes of violence.
MARTIN LUTHER For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than...
MARTIN LUTHER The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
MARTIN LUTHER The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
MARTIN LUTHER If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't ...
MARTIN LUTHER If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
MARTIN LUTHER The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it...
MARTIN LUTHER I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in expl...
MARTIN LUTHER When schools flourish, all flourishes.
MARTIN LUTHER Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
MARTIN LUTHER Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
MARTIN LUTHER First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each...
MARTIN LUTHER The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
MARTIN LUTHER My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick a...
MARTIN LUTHER I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
MARTIN LUTHER I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...
MARTIN LUTHER Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
MARTIN LUTHER Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
MARTIN LUTHER Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justic...
MARTIN LUTHER People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous ...
MARTIN LUTHER Forgiveness is God's command.
MARTIN LUTHER Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
MARTIN LUTHER I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution...
MARTIN LUTHER There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marr...
MARTIN LUTHER The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
MARTIN LUTHER All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
MARTIN LUTHER Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.
MARTIN LUTHER Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
MARTIN LUTHER Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even thoug...
MARTIN LUTHER Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.
MARTIN LUTHER Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct sugges...
MARTIN LUTHER To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life ...
MARTIN LUTHER Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!
MARTIN LUTHER Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
MARTIN LUTHER So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell h...
MARTIN LUTHER We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
MARTIN LUTHER This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not ...
MARTIN LUTHER How soon not now, becomes never.
MARTIN LUTHER All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will recei...
MARTIN LUTHER Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
MARTIN LUTHER Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
MARTIN LUTHER I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I...
MARTIN LUTHER Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.
MARTIN LUTHER If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
MARTIN LUTHER When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
MARTIN LUTHER Christian life consists of faith and charity.
MARTIN LUTHER Christians are rare people on earth.
MARTIN LUTHER You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.
MARTIN LUTHER The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners o...
MARTIN LUTHER Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
MARTIN LUTHER You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who recei...
MARTIN LUTHER Reason is the enemy of faith.
MARTIN LUTHER Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his ...
MARTIN LUTHER Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
MARTIN LUTHER I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pop...
MARTIN LUTHER In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incom...
MARTIN LUTHER The devil is God's ape!
MARTIN LUTHER If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses...
MARTIN LUTHER Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and so...
MARTIN LUTHER An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some r...
MARTIN LUTHER The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
MARTIN LUTHER Forgiveness is God's command.
MARTIN LUTHER Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
MARTIN LUTHER Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and wil...
MARTIN LUTHER People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous ...
MARTIN LUTHER You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposit...
MARTIN LUTHER Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.
MARTIN LUTHER I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on t...
MARTIN LUTHER You'll be subjected to hazing all your life.
MARTIN LUTHER The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
MARTIN LUTHER No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red a...
MARTIN LUTHER An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and th...
MARTIN LUTHER Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoev...
MARTIN LUTHER The Devil beget darkness; darkness beget ignorance; ignorance beget error and his brethren; error be...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of Philip & James, Apostles If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition eve...
MARTIN LUTHER In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, ...
MARTIN LUTHER Pray, and let God worry
MARTIN LUTHER I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his fac...
MARTIN LUTHER All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betray...
MARTIN LUTHER Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes begging.
MARTIN LUTHER The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners o...
MARTIN LUTHER We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first d...
MARTIN LUTHER A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he ...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 A Christian man is most free lord of all, and subject t...
MARTIN LUTHER Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if i...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Our Lord has written the promise of the r...
MARTIN LUTHER Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Kee...
MARTIN LUTHER What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it ...
MARTIN LUTHER In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, t...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either ...
MARTIN LUTHER The hair is the richest ornament of women.
MARTIN LUTHER You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say
MARTIN LUTHER A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth...
MARTIN LUTHER Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
MARTIN LUTHER A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.
MARTIN LUTHER Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for ...
MARTIN LUTHER Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good...
MARTIN LUTHER Teaching is of more importance than urging.
MARTIN LUTHER If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against ...
MARTIN LUTHER If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck ...
MARTIN LUTHER How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.
MARTIN LUTHER Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the desp...
MARTIN LUTHER Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gen...
MARTIN LUTHER War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it d...
MARTIN LUTHER To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian l...
MARTIN LUTHER I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here ...
MARTIN LUTHER For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
MARTIN LUTHER You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
MARTIN LUTHER If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
MARTIN LUTHER Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
MARTIN LUTHER Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
MARTIN LUTHER The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I sho...
MARTIN LUTHER To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
MARTIN LUTHER Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
MARTIN LUTHER Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtim...
MARTIN LUTHER Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
MARTIN LUTHER Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
MARTIN LUTHER God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and s...
MARTIN LUTHER Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake ...
MARTIN LUTHER Pray, and let God worry.
MARTIN LUTHER There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marria...
MARTIN LUTHER Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
MARTIN LUTHER Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
MARTIN LUTHER Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and w...
MARTIN LUTHER Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of th...
MARTIN LUTHER If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he kn...
MARTIN LUTHER To progress is always to begin always to begin again
MARTIN LUTHER I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
MARTIN LUTHER Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful
MARTIN LUTHER The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and fl...
MARTIN LUTHER There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. On...
MARTIN LUTHER So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.
MARTIN LUTHER Everything done in the world is done by hope.
MARTIN LUTHER In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, w...
MARTIN LUTHER Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child ...
MARTIN LUTHER Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth
MARTIN LUTHER Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes
MARTIN LUTHER Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man woul...
MARTIN LUTHER In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More ...
MARTIN LUTHER Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the childre...
MARTIN LUTHER I more fear what is within me than what comes from without
MARTIN LUTHER I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's h...
MARTIN LUTHER All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will recei...
MARTIN LUTHER Who loves not wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long
MARTIN LUTHER Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
MARTIN LUTHER The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of mu...
MARTIN LUTHER There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.
MARTIN LUTHER I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's h...
MARTIN LUTHER Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
MARTIN LUTHER The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and...
MARTIN LUTHER Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, ...
MARTIN LUTHER Virtually the whole of the scriptures and the understanding of the whole of theology—the entire Ch...
MARTIN LUTHER We rightly confess, in our articles of belief, that there is a holy church; for it is invisible, dwe...
MARTIN LUTHER As we see from the Scriptures, it had become a common and proverbial expression that if someone want...
MARTIN LUTHER Well, there is nothing we can do about it. We have to put up with these snakes, dogs, and swine surr...
MARTIN LUTHER It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in...
MARTIN LUTHER I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligen...
MARTIN LUTHER [Re: Rom 10:2] It is commonly said: “The intention is good, and the purpose is true, but the means...
MARTIN LUTHER These words [of Romans 12:1-2] are overflowingly rich in consolation; for just then when afflictions...
MARTIN LUTHER Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject t...
MARTIN LUTHER At these words I was utterly stupefied and terror-stricken. I thought to myself, “With what tongue...
MARTIN LUTHER Hence, when we ask anything of God and He begins to hear us, He so often goes counter to our petitio...
MARTIN LUTHER It is not our work, but God's gift, that we now hate ourselves and our sinful lusts and follow after...
MARTIN LUTHER Therefore the words in Psalm 72:7: "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace...
MARTIN LUTHER With reference to the elect we might distinguish between three classes. First, there are those who a...
MARTIN LUTHER Love is not only pure joy, and delight, but also great and deep heaviness of heart and sorrow. But l...
MARTIN LUTHER But what, then, is original sin? According to the Apostle it is not only the lack of a good quality ...
MARTIN LUTHER ‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We sho...
MARTIN LUTHER If anyone attempted to rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and sword on the...
MARTIN LUTHER In his life Christ is an example showing
us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfyi...
MARTIN LUTHER If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
MARTIN LUTHER There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
MARTIN LUTHER I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I poss...
MARTIN LUTHER Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!
MARTIN LUTHER I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
MARTIN LUTHER I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined t...
MARTIN LUTHER How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had comm...
MARTIN LUTHER The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good...
MARTIN LUTHER Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise.
MARTIN LUTHER The fewer words the better prayer.
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus For some years now I have read through the Bible tw...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer: I h...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 All who call on God in true faith, earne...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 I have held many things in my hands...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Let every man recognize what he is, and b...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Chri...
MARTIN LUTHER Christ says that not alone in the Church is there forgiveness of sins, but that where two or three a...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 All who call on God in true faith, ear...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of the Holy Innocents The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings th...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Here is the truly Christian life, here is...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles It is for Christ's sake that we believe in the Sc...
MARTIN LUTHER Man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body, in order to work on its account, but also f...
MARTIN LUTHER Continuing a short series on Romans 8: [Of vv. 4-13] You must not understand flesh here as ...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 The authority of Scripture is greater tha...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible: Chris...
MARTIN LUTHER Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to ...
MARTIN LUTHER Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 I have held many things in my hands,...
MARTIN LUTHER Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your ene...
MARTIN LUTHER For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel
MARTIN LUTHER