Martin Luther Faith Quotations

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it one thousand times. This confidence in God's grace and knowledge of it makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures; and this is the work of the Holy Ghost in faith.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.

I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Faith is under the left nipple.

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.

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

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

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 permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

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.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

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.

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.

Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.