Quotes about Religion
For it is difficult to believe in God without an example, to be led by God as He led Abraham, a solitary individual, to see all the other peoples having an abhorrence for the religion you follow, to find that you alone believe and follow something different from all other men.
— Martin Luther
Thus it has come about that out of the Word they have made Law, out of faith works, out of truth a show; and therefore they have finally been forced to employ the sword.
— Martin Luther
To be a Christian without praying is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
— Martin Luther
He who has once forsaken God finds it impossible to abide by one definite deity, that is, in one religion or definite worship of God, just as there is an infinite succession of sins through unbelief, or the loss of faith. It
— Martin Luther
Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace into idolatry.
— Martin Luther
Faith is Individual.
— Martin Luther
Thus a Christian, being consecrated by his faith, does good works; but he is not by these works made a more sacred person, or more a Christian.
— Martin Luther
Hence every external worship and religion is dregs, which alone are left to be drunk by those who by it exalt themselves over others.
— Martin Luther
For if the light of the Word is destroyed, then all will again be wrapped in the horrible darkness of the Turk or the pope or other heretics. This
— Martin Luther
I rejoice greatly that the simple faith of this sacrament is still to be found, at least among the common people. For as they do not understand, neither do they dispute whether accidents are present without substance, but believe with a simple faith that Christ's body and blood are truly contained there, and leave to those who have nothing else to do the argument about what contains them.
— Martin Luther
For my part, if I cannot fathom how the bread is the body of Christ, yet I will take my reason captive to the obedience of Christ [II Cor. 10:5], and clinging simply to his words, firmly believe not only that the body of Christ is in the bread, but that the bread is the body of Christ.
— Martin Luther
Therefore let us avoid these men of blood and not allow them to draw us into Judaism.
— Martin Luther