Martin Luther Quotes

Suffering saints are living seed.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

The more you walk with God, the harder it is to scrape your knee

But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.

Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem.

I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you do not have a deep and patient faith in God, you will be powerless to face the delays, disappointments, and vicissitudes that inevitably come.

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

Training in God's gym may hurt sometimes, but He will make us stronger.

When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.

Faith parries all blows. Faith transforms poison into crystalline water.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.

Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.

If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.

If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.

The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.