Quotes about Truth
Returning to the subject which we had begun, I think it is made clear by these considerations that it is not sufficient, nor a Christian course, to preach the works, life, and words of Christ in a historic manner, as facts which it suffices to know as an example how to frame our life, as do those who are now held the best preachers
— Martin Luther
it is completely contrary to the nature of sin to confess that one has sinned.
— Martin Luther
Let us then consider it certain and firmly established that the soul can do without anything except the Word of God and that where the Word of God is missing there is no help at all for the soul.
— Martin Luther
No one can worthily speak or hear any Scripture, unless he is touched in conformity with it, so that he feels inwardly what he hears and says outwardly and says, "Ah, this is true!
— Martin Luther
115. Learn, then, what a hypocrite is; namely, one who lays claim to the worship of God and to charity, and yet, at the same time, destroys the worship of God and slaughters his brother.
— Martin Luther
For so it usually happens in the world. Righteous men are regarded as sinners and vice versa.
— Martin Luther
For whatever is said against a righteous man is said indirectly against God, who is in the righteous.
— Martin Luther
I have no dispute with any man concerning morals, but only concerning the word of truth. In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word. He who thinks otherwise of me, or has taken in my words in another sense, does not think rightly, and has not taken in the truth.
— Martin Luther
For so it usually happens in the world. Righteous men are regarded as sinners and vice versa. No one in the whole world is a sinner except the man who has the Word and believes in Christ. But those who persecute and hate the Word are the righteous ones. As Christ says (cf. John 16:2): "They think they are offering God a service.
— Martin Luther
The present facts are that the world is insane and rages when we confess Christ and believe in Him.
— Martin Luther
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
— Martin Luther
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say
— Martin Luther