Martin Luther Quotes About Free Will

Quotes about: Free Will

• Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Doe, World

  J. I. Packer, Martin Luther, O. R. Johnston (1990). “Bondage of the Will, The”, Revell

• God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

  Martin Luther

  Doe, Purpose, Pieces

  Martin Luther (2005). “The Bondage of the Will”, p.28, RDMc Publishing

• 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

• If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Men, Grace

• This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.

  Martin Luther

  Errors, Special, Doctrine

  "Grund und Ursach aller Artikel D. Martin Luthers so durch römische Bulle unrechtlich verdammt sind" Article 36 in "D. Martin Luthers Werke: kritische Gesamtausgabe" by Martin Luther, Volume 7, (p. 451), 1897.

• All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Grace, Scripture, Helping

• Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

  Martin Luther

  Freedom, House, Cows

• The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Men, Grace

  Martin Luther (2007). “Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year”, p.32, Hendrickson Publishers

• He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Men, Able

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.120

• Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart' (Deut 6.5) that therefore you can love with all your heart? What do arguments of this kind prove, but the 'free-will' does not need the grace of God, but can do all things by its own power....But it does not follow from this that man is converted by his own power, nor do the words say so; they simply say: "if thou wilt turn,telling man what he should do. When he knows it, and sees that he cannot do it, he will ask whence he may find ability to do it..." 164

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Men, Grace

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