01c. 1514 ADPrayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.Martin Luther / quote ↗
02c. 1514 ADNo one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.Martin Luther / quote ↗
03c. 1514 ADThe heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.Martin Luther / quote ↗
05c. 1514 ADAt these words I was utterly stupefied and terror-stricken. I thought to myself, “With what tongue shall I address such majesty, seeing that all men ought to tremble in the presence of even an earthly prince? Who am I, that I should lift up mine eyes or raise my hands to the divine Majesty? The angels surround him. At his nod the earth trembles. And shall I, a miserable little pygmy, say ‘I want this, I ask for that’? For I am dust and ashes and full of sin and I am speaking to the living, eternal and the true God.Martin Luther / quote ↗
06c. 1514 ADRather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.Martin Luther / quote ↗
08c. 1514 ADPreach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.Martin Luther / quote ↗
09c. 1514 ADA true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.Martin Luther / quote ↗
10c. 1514 ADThus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.Martin Luther / quote ↗
11c. 1514 ADThis 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 / quote ↗
12c. 1514 ADSatan, the god of all dissension stirs up daily new sects. And last of all which of all others I should have foreseen or once suspected. He has raised up a sect such as teach that men should not be terrified by the Law but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.Martin Luther / quote ↗
13c. 1514 ADIf God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.Martin Luther / quote ↗
14c. 1514 ADThus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.Martin Luther / quote ↗
15c. 1514 ADChrist want to point this out and to warn His followers that in the world everyone should live as though he were alone and should consider His Word and preaching as the very greatest thing on earth, thinking this way to himself: “I see my neighbor and the whole city, and yes the whole world, living differently. All those who are great or noble or rich, the princes and the lords, are allied with it. Nevertheless I have an ally who is greater than all of them, namely, Christ and His Word. When I am all alone, therefore, I am still not alone. Because I have the Word of God, I have Christ with me, together with all the dear angels and all the saints since the beginning of the world. Actually there is a bigger crowd and a more glorious procession surrounding me than there could be in the whole world now. Only I cannot see it with my eyes, and I have to watch and bear the offense of having so many people forsake me or live and act in opposition to me.Martin Luther / quote ↗
16c. 1514 ADThe soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.Martin Luther / quote ↗
17c. 1514 ADI am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.Martin Luther / quote ↗
18c. 1514 ADEverything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior.Martin Luther / quote ↗
19c. 1514 ADThere is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of the sky, the sun, the moon, just as if somebody were moving in a carriage or ship might hold that he was sitting still and at rest while the earth and the trees walked and moved. But that is how things are nowadays: when a man wishes to be clever he must . . . invent something special, and the way he does it must needs be the best! The fool wants to turn the whole art of astronomy upside-down. However, as Holy Scripture tells us, so did Joshua bid the sun to stand still and not the earth.[Martin Luther stating his objection to heliocentrism due to his Scripture's geocentrism]Martin Luther / quote ↗
20c. 1514 ADON GETTING DRUNK:"Those who are Christians are to see to it that they are grateful for grace and redemption and conduct themselves modestly, moderately, and soberly, so that one does not go on living the swinish life that goes on in the filthy world...." "...In my time it was considered a great shame among the nobility [drunkenness]. Now they are worse than the citizens and peasants;...We preach, but who stops it? Those who should stop it do it themselves; the princes even more. Therefore Germany is a land of hogs and a filthy people which debauches its body and its life. If you were going to paint it, you would have to paint a pig. "This gluttony is inundating us like an ocean....We are the laughingstock of all the other countries, who look upon us as filthy pigs;...It is possible to tolerate a little elevation, when a man takes a drink or two too much after working hard and when he is feeling low. This must be called a frolic. But to sit day and night, pouring it in and pouring it out again, is piggish. This is not a human way of living. not to say Christian, but rather a pig's life." - Martin LutherMartin Luther / quote ↗
21c. 1514 ADThe sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own handsMartin Luther / quote ↗
22c. 1514 ADIn his life Christ is an example showingus how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.Martin Luther / quote ↗
24c. 1514 AD...so unbelief alone commits sin..Hence Christ calls unbelief the only sin.Martin Luther / quote ↗
