Quotes about Struggle
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.… Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.
— Martin Luther
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
— Martin Luther
To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
— Martin Luther
No great saint lived without errors.
— Martin Luther
I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?
— Martin Luther
Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
— Martin Luther
This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.
— Martin Luther
Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.
— Martin Luther
Blood alone moves the wheels of history
— Martin Luther
Despair makes priests and friars.
— Martin Luther
The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.
— Martin Luther
The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.
— Martin Luther