Quotes about Martin Luther

M]y conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

First, self-love is already present in all people. Second, if God had wanted to command you to love yourself, he would have said, "You should love yourself and your neighbor as yourself." But he said instead, "Love your neighbor as yourself." In other words, "as yourself " means the way you already love yourself, without a commandment to do so.

For all our life should be baptism, and the fulfilling of the sign, or sacrament, of baptism; we have been set free from all else and wholly given over to baptism alone, that is, to death and resurrection. This glorious liberty of ours, and this understanding of baptism have been carried captive in our day

it is completely contrary to the nature of sin to confess that one has sinned.

Therefore let us avoid these men of blood and not allow them to draw us into Judaism.

Therefore the whole meaning is that he who by the grace of God believes suffers persecution either from the world or from the flesh.

If we want to talk about natural powers on the basis of this psalm and on the basis of the Holy Spirit's manner of speaking, then we should call "natural" the fact that we are in sin and death and that we desire, understand, and long for things that are corrupt and evil.

Through envy, greed, and councilors young, Jerusalem, Troy, and Rome were hung.

For if "Free-will" cannot of itself will good, but wills good by grace alone, (for we are speaking of "Free-will" apart from grace and inquiring into the power which properly belongs to each) who does not see, that that good will, merit, and reward, belong to grace alone.

Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.

His righteousness rises above the sins of all men; His life is more powerful than all death; His salvation is more unconquerable than all hell.

what Paul means in chapter 3 when, after he has thrown out the works of the law, he sounds as though the wants to abolish the law by faith. No, he says, we uphold the law through faith