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For example, imagine that two people each have a hundred dollars. One person carries it in a paper bag. The other keeps it in an iron chest. Both have the same treasure no matter where they put it. Similarly, we all have the same Christ. It doesn't matter if one person has a stronger or weaker faith than another. Both of them still believe in the same Christ and have everything through him.
— Martin Luther
God doesn't test us because he enjoys it. He tests us to find out whether we love him above all things.
— Martin Luther
Therefore the whole meaning is that he who by the grace of God believes suffers persecution either from the world or from the flesh.
— Martin Luther
Ask God to work faith in you; otherwise you will remain eternally without faith, no matter what you try to do or fabricate.
— Martin Luther
a right faith in Christ is an incomparable treasure, carrying with it universal salvation and preserving from all evil
— Martin Luther
If what we need isn't available to us, we have to rely on God's promises. If we don't rely on God, we are testing him.
— Martin Luther
When we try to dictate to God the time, place, and manner for him to act, we are testing him. At the same time, we're trying to see if he is really there. When we do this we are putting limits on God and trying to make him do what we want. It's nothing less than trying to deprive God of his divinity. But we must realize that God is free—not subject to any limitations. He must dictate to us the place, manner, and time that he will act.
— Martin Luther
Therefore when we are afflicted and disciplined, our heart must be aroused against the feeling of evil, and we must say (cf. Ps. 118:17): "I shall not die, but I shall live, however different it may appear. Although I may, indeed, be compelled to despair of myself, I shall nevertheless hope in Him who made all things out of nothing and can restore me intact after being reduced to nothing, to my very great benefit and that of others.
— Martin Luther
God orders us to believe and trust in his goodness, but at the same time, we should never test him. We must take advantage of opportunities that God gives us. If we don't, we aren't living according to his plan. But we must continue to maintain our faith and hope in God.
— Martin Luther
God the Father has made everything to depend on faith, so that whosoever has it has all things, and he who has it not has nothing.
— Martin Luther
We cannot have justification urged upon us too often or too much. Even if we learn it and understand it well, none of us grasps it perfectly or believes it with his whole heart. Our flesh is so frail and is often disobedient to the Spirit.
— Martin Luther
No believing Christian can be coerced beyond Holy Writ
— Martin Luther