All MARTIN LUTHER Quotes about “Church”

“Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.”
“May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.”
“Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.”
“The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.”
“If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.”
“Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.”
“Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace. This is a sure token that the devil is guarding the entry to the house, and that the PURE doctrine of God's Word has been taken away. The Church then, is in the BEST state when Satan assaileth it on every sideboth with subtle sleights, and outright violence. And likewise, it is in the WORST state when it is most at peace!”
“If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.”
“This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.”
“Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.”
“Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.”
“Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.”
“For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.”
“What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?”
“No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.”
“Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.”
“Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.”
“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.”
“The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.”

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