Martin Luther Quotes About Preaching

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  • It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

    Men  
  • If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.

  • Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

  • [Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and the Sacrament [i.e., communion/Eucharist/Lord's supper], and incorporated it in the Word and preaching. To our eyes Baptism [capitalized in original] appears to be nothing more than ordinary water, and the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood simple bread and wine, like other bread and wine, and the sermon, hot air from a man's mouth. But we must not trust what our eyes see.

    Wine  
  • I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

    Martin Luther (2012). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.4, Courier Corporation
  • Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness - this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain.

    Law  
    "The Freedom of a Christian" by Martin Luther, 1520.
  • To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

    Believe  
    Martin Luther “The Freedom of a Christian”, Lulu.com
  • But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

    Men   Law  
    "A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians".
  • Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.

  • I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

    Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.238
  • A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

  • The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

  • Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.

    Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.121
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