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The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

Martin Luther
Law, Proud, Brokenhearted

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

Martin Luther
Prayer, Powerful, Believe
Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.155

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Martin Luther
Christian Inspirational, Christ, Cradle

Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

Martin Luther
Christian, Prayer, Fighting
Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.

Martin Luther
Music, Song, Men
"Liturgy and hymns".

The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word' in faith and love, and not the 'mere hearers,' who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.

Martin Luther
Expression, Practice, And Love

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

Martin Luther
Laughter, Heaven, Earth

God may delay, but He always comes.

Martin Luther
Delay, May

The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

Martin Luther
Men, Evil, Grace

God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.

Martin Luther
Hostile, Unbelievers, Sinner
Martin Luther (2009). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.93, The Floating Press

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

Martin Luther
Men

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

Martin Luther
Religious, Humor, Pope

Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.

Martin Luther
Opportunity, Trials, Great Opportunity

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

Martin Luther
Morning, Prayer, Two

When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

Martin Luther
Jesus, Have Faith, Action

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

Martin Luther
Prayer, Praying, Harder

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

Martin Luther
Drinking, Beer, Thinking

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

Martin Luther
Christian, Adversity, Rose

In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.

Martin Luther
Book, Light, Evil
Martin Luther (1848). “The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther”, p.2

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
Wise, Christian, Eye

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.

Martin Luther
Lying, Lambs, Want
Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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

Martin Luther
Friday, Spiritual, Jesus

Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.

Martin Luther
Riches, Merit, Latter
Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

Martin Luther
Revelations, Whole
Martin Luther (1838). “A Commentary on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians: To which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author, and a Complete and Impartial History of the Times in which He Lived”, p.387

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

Martin Luther
God, Faith, Men
"Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings".

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