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When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, "Repent," he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
Ninety-five Theses (1517)
Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.
Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew.
The Freedom of a Christian (1520)
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
On Marriage (1530)
Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
On Marriage (1530)
The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart.
We must calm the mind of the common man, and tell him to abstain from the words and even the passions which lead to insurrection.
A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion (1522)
Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.
Man is by nature unable to want God to be God. Indeed, he himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God.
Disputation against Scholastic Theology (1517)
It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church.
We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
Disputation against Scholastic Theology (1517)
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in spring time.
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
Table Talk (1569)
There is no need for you to develop an armed insurrection. Christ himself has already begun an insurrection with his mouth.
A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion (1522)
It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Lord and still a Virgin.
The law is what we must do; the gospel what God will give.
The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.