Martin Luther Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• Here I stand; I can do no other.

  Martin Luther

  Choices, Can Do, I Can

  Speech at Diet of Worms, 18 Apr. 1521.

• The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

  Martin Luther

  Evil, Choices, Free Will

• I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

  Martin Luther

  Hands, Choices, Wish

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.350, Fortress Press

• We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Kings, Real

• Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

  Martin Luther

  Color, Choices, Simplicity

• what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

  Martin Luther

  Mean, Choices, Rooms

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.323, Fortress Press

• You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

  Martin Luther

  Choices, Scripture, Type

  Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

• If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy.

  Martin Luther

  Choices, Needs, Spirit

• Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

  Martin Luther

  Egypt, Names, Creating

  Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

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