Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Martin Luther; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Late Medieval Catholic Church. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money, proposing an academic discussion of the practice and efficacy of indulgences in his Ninety-five Theses of 1517. His refusal to renounce all of his...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth10 November 1483
CityEisleben, Germany
CountryGermany
A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 't is a rare bird in the land
Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.
Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow.
Therefore, when some say good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: If you had health, you would have the use of your limbs; but without health the works of your limbs are nothing and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.
This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.
Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.
O, 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...
Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing