If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing. 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 laughterhumorlaughing 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 sinmadechrist God may delay, but He always comes. Martin Luther delaymay 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 prayermorningthinking Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial. Martin Luther great-opportunitytrialsopportunity 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 effortgracemen Without images we can neither think nor understand anything. Martin Luther thinking No great saint lived without errors. Martin Luther sainterrors 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 sleepheartmorning The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. Martin Luther cradlechristian-inspirationalchrist Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word. Martin Luther eyesoulbeautiful 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 scripturedyingjesus 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 churchchristianbelieve 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 namessonjesus 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 bridgesnamesstones 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 eyechristianwise Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. Martin Luther lonelinessfaithdeath A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes. Martin Luther snowballbiggerlying God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers. Martin Luther unbelieverssinnerhostile
