Quotes about Revelation
18. I will put My words in His mouth. This also clearly proves that the Prophet will teach something different.
— Martin Luther
Brother, you would like to feel God's favor as you feel your sin. But you are asking too much. Your righteousness rests on something much better than feelings. Wait and hope until it will be revealed to you in the Lord's own time. Don't go by your feelings, but go by the doctrine of faith, which pledges Christ to you.
— Martin Luther
Holy Ghost goes first and before in what pertains to teaching; but in what concerns hearing, the Word goes first and before, and then the Holy Ghost follows after. For we must first hear the Word, and then afterwards the Holy Ghost 'works in our hearts; he works in the hearts of whom he will, and how he will, but never without the Word.
— Martin Luther
For this ought, above all things, to be received, and most firmly settled among Christians: - that the Holy Scriptures are a spiritual light by far more clear than the sun itself, especially in those things which pertain unto salvation or necessity.
— Martin Luther
And if what they claim were true, why have Holy Scripture at all? Of what use is Scripture?
— Martin Luther
God will and can be known in no other way than in and through Christ according to the statement of John 1:18, "The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." Christ is the only means whereby we can know God and His will. In Christ we perceive that God is not a cruel judge, but a most loving and merciful Father who to bless and to save us "spared not his own Son, but gave him up for us all." This is truly to know God.
— Martin Luther
Every time people are converted, it is because God has come to them and overcome their ignorance by showing the Gospel to them.
— Martin Luther
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
— Martin Luther
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
— CS Lewis
St. Peter scold me saying son, where have you been? And he saw me with you and asked why are you with that person? and I said to him sorry St. Peter, I though it was heaven.
— Anonymous
Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.
— Anonymous
I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.
— John Mayer