Commentary on Galatians
Martin Luther
Top 10 Best Quotes
“To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.”
“By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.”
“We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.”
“God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.”
“The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.”
“The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.”
“The world bears the Gospel a grudge because the Gospel condemns the religious wisdom of the world.”
“Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.”
“We rightly confess, in our articles of belief, that there is a holy church; for it is invisible, dwelling in a place that none can attain unto, and therefore her holiness cannot be seen; for God doth so hide and cover her with infirmities, with errors, with divers forms of the cross and offences, that according to the judgment of reason, it is nowhere to be seen.”
“The white devil of spiritual sin is far more dangerous than the black devil of carnal sin because the wiser, the better men are without Christ, the more they are likely to ignore and oppose the Gospel.”
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