In honor of Reformation Day, I give you a handful of my favorite Martin Luther quotes. Enjoy. [blockquote pull=”” align=”left” attributed_to=”Martin Luther”...
“The chief fault of some good prayers is, that they are too long; not that I think we should pray by the clock, and limit ourselves precisely to a certain number of minutes; but it is better of the two, that the hearers should wish the prayer had been longer,...
“We are in the Lord’s school–the school of the cross. His daily providential dispensations are suited to wean our attachment from everything here on earth–and to convince us that this world cannot be our rest, for it is polluted. Our roses grow on thorns;...
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better looking than...
“I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live. You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you...
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength...