Quotes about Reflection

Each one should become as it were a Christ to the other that we may be Christs to one another and Christ may be the same in all, that is, that we may be truly Christians.

Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.

Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.

It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public, or you did not reflect that it was Luther you were writing against, whom I hope you allow nonetheless to have some acquaintance with Holy Writ and some judgment in respect of it.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

your thoughts concerning God are too human.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

Before you pray, check to see whether you believe or doubt that you will be heard. If you are doubting or uncertain, or if you are merely trying a prayer to see what happens, your prayer won't be worth anything.

We need a millstone around our neck to keep us humble.

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

For more than twenty years I was a pious monk, read Mass daily, and so weakened myself with fasting and praying that I would not have been long for this life had I continued. Yet all this taken together cannot help me in even one little crisis to be able to say before God: 'All this I have done, now please consider it, and be gracious to me.' What else did I achieve with this than to plague myself uselessly, impair my health, and waste my time?

For the statement of Isaiah (28:19) is true: "Trouble gives understanding"; likewise, hunger is the best condiment. For those who are afflicted have a better understanding of the Holy Scriptures; the smug and prosperous read them as if they were some poem written by Ovid.