All MARTIN LUTHER Quotes about “Good Works”

“Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.”
“Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.”
“If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.”
“O, this faith is a living, busy, active, powerful thing! It is impossible that it should not be ceaselessly doing that which is good. It does not even ask whether good works should be done; but before the question can be asked, it has done them, and it is constantly engaged in doing them. But he who does not do such works, is a man without faith. He gropes and casts about him to find faith and good works, not knowing what either of them is, and yet prattles and idly multiplies words about faith and good works.”
“Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.”
“Therefore, when some say good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: If you had health, you would have the use of your limbs; but without health the works of your limbs are nothing and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.”
“We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.”
“Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.”
“O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.”
“He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.”

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