Quotes about Belief
Our whole life should be manly; we should fear God and put our trust in him.
— Martin Luther
the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous
— Martin Luther
When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do, rather, before the question is raised, it has done the deed, and keeps on doing it
— Martin Luther
If you consider this subject unnecessary for Christians, then please quit the field; you and I have nothing in common, for I consider it vital.
— Martin Luther
Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious.
— Martin Luther
Despair makes priests and friars.
— Martin Luther
The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God.
— Martin Luther
Are we not to call Christ ours because we have not made him but only received him? Again, if we are the makers of things that are called ours, then we must have made our eyes, we must have made our hands, we must have made our feet, unless eyes, hands and feet are not to be called ours.
— Martin Luther
The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.
— Martin Luther
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.
— Martin Luther
Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.
— Martin Luther
The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.
— Martin Luther