Martin Luther Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

  Martin Luther

  Failing, Fortresses, Prevailing

  Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc

• If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

  Martin Luther

  Morning, Prayer, Two

• Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.

  Martin Luther

  Work, Book, Failure

• The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Believe, Errors

• True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

  Martin Luther

  Light, Giving, Sun

• I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

  Martin Luther

  Hypocrite, Cutting, Fighting

• People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  Martin Luther

  Education, People, Principles

• Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Medicine, Helping

  "The place of trust: Martin Luther on the Sermon on the mount".

• The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Church, Failing, Social

• God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  Martin Luther (2007). “Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year”, p.412, Hendrickson Publishers

• A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
  Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
  For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
  His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
  On earth is not his equal.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Crafts, Earth

  Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc

• I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.

  Martin Luther

  World, Failing, Hell

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.18

• Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

  Martin Luther

  Fruit, Failing, Heard

  Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Martin Luther (1841). “Life of Martin Luther”, p.165

• Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Failure, Men

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