Martin Luther Promise Quotations

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.

Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.

God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.

Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.