More Quotes by Martin Luther
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.
The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?
No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
The 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 hands
When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.
We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.
