Source: Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional
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Famous Martin Luther Quotes
Source: A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
Source: Luther's Primary Works: Together with His Shorter and Larger Catechisms
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
Source: Commentary on Galatians
Source: Career of the reformer
“No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.”
“God can be found only in suffering and the cross.”
Source: Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings
Source: Table talk
“Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.”
Source: Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-will. First Pub. in the Year of Our Lord 1525
“A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.”
“How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian.”
“Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.”
Source: Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings
“Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.”
Source: The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell
Source: Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings
Source: Luther's Table-talk
Source: Luther's Works: Lectures on the Minor Prophets II, Jonah and Habakkuk
“I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.”
Source: The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc
“Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
Source: Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.”
Source: Influential Thinkers of the Renaissance
“When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.”
Source: Devotions and prayers
“A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“Nothing is easier than sinning.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“Your thoughts of God are too human”
Source: On the Bondage of the Will: A New Translation of De Servo Arbitrio (1525), Martin Luther's Reply to Erasmus of Rotterdam
Source: Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing
“The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.”
“Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.”