A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes. Martin Luther More Quotes by Martin Luther More Quotes From Martin Luther Whatever you love most, that is your god. Martin Luther interesting If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. Martin Luther laughter humor laughing He [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 sin made christ God may delay, but He always comes. Martin Luther delay may It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught. Martin Luther prayer morning thinking Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial. Martin Luther great-opportunity trials opportunity God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of Another -- God alone. Martin Luther effort grace men Without images we can neither think nor understand anything. Martin Luther thinking No great saint lived without errors. Martin Luther saint errors At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning. Martin Luther sleep heart morning The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. Martin Luther cradle christian-inspirational christ Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word. Martin Luther eye soul beautiful Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures. Martin Luther scripture dying jesus May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins. Martin Luther church christian believe I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also! Martin Luther names son jesus If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'. Martin Luther bridges names stones 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 eye christian wise Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. Martin Luther loneliness faith death God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers. Martin Luther unbelievers sinner hostile They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses? Martin Luther adversity christian rose
