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Selected Passages from Luther

  • “One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom...”
  • “...the entire Scripture deals only with Christ everywhere...”
  • “We pray after all because we are unworthy to pray...”
  • “The blindness of human reason is so incomprehensible and infinite that it cannot form sound judgments even about life and works...”
  • “...we must take note that ‘to have an enlightened zeal for God’ is to be zealous for God in pious ignorance and mental darkness...”
  • “Where suffering and the cross are found, there the Gospel can show and exercise its power...”
  • “In the breaking of our will God’s will is done; for he wants to see our will hindered and broken...”
  • On loving one's neighbor as you love yourself (Galatians 5:14).
  • On the revelation of the Trinity at the baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3:13-17).

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