Martin Luther Quotes About Faith
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I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.
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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.
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Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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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.
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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.
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Reason is the enemy of faith.
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Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.
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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.
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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.
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This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.
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Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.
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When some say that 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 all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.
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You have as much laughter as you have faith.
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The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
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A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
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Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another.
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Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.
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Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.
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Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.
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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.
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The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.
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We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
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Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?
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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
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Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.
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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.
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