Quotes about Belief
This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.
— Martin Luther
To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.
— Martin Luther
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...
— Martin Luther
Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.
— Martin Luther
How can a reason which hates God be called sound?
— Martin Luther
If we do not love God and His Word what difference does it make if we love anything at all?
— Martin Luther
Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.
— Martin Luther
Hier stehe Ich, Ich kann nicht anders." ("Here I stand, I can do no other")
— Martin Luther
Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.
— Martin Luther
He who believes God, recognizes Him as true and faithful, and himself as a liar; for he mistrusts his own thinking as false, and trusts the Word of God as being true, though it absolutely contradicts his own reasoning.
— Martin Luther
If you try to deal with sin in your conscience, let it remain there, and continue to look at it in your heart, your sins will become too strong for you. They will seem to live forever. But when you think of your sins as being on Christ and boldly believe that he conquered them through his resurrection, then they are dead and gone. Sin can't remain on Christ. His resurrection swallowed up sin.
— Martin Luther
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times
— Martin Luther