Quotes about Divine
If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.
— Martin Luther
And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture they expound is uncertain, who can assure us that heir exposition is certain? Another new exposition? And who will expound the exposition? At this rate we will go on forever. In short, if Scripture is obscure or ambiguous, what part is there in God's giving it to us?
— Martin Luther
I felt that I had been born anew and that the gates of heaven had been opened. The whole of Scripture gained a new meaning. And from that point on the phrase, 'the justice of God' no longer filled me with hatred, but rather became unspeakable sweet by virtue of a great love.
— Martin Luther
The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God.
— Martin Luther
Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.
— Martin Luther
Stop your complaining, stop your doctoring; this tumult has arisen and is direct from above, and it will not cease till it makes all the adversaries of the Word like the mud on the streets. But it is sad to have to remind a theologian like you of these things, as if you were a pupil instead of one who ought to be teaching others.
— Martin Luther
Before you can cry to God and seek him God must come to you and must have found you
— Martin Luther
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
— Martin Luther
For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome.
— Martin Luther
your thoughts concerning God are too human.
— Martin Luther
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
— Martin Luther
It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.
— Martin Luther