Martin Luther

faith-and-doubt

• God seems so terribly angry, and with him the whole creation — punishments so great that half an hour would have reduced all his bones to ashes.

  MLU-001

• Here I felt that I was altogether born again — the righteousness of God is that passive righteousness with which the merciful God justifies us by faith.

  MLU-002

• Into your hands I commit my spirit — spoken twice, the second time alone in the corridor, before losing consciousness at Eisleben where he was born and baptized.

  MLU-009

embodiment

• Who am I, that I should lift up mine eyes to the divine Majesty? I am dust and ashes and full of sin, speaking to the living, eternal, true God.

  MLU-006

• He had so worn himself down by fasting and vigil that he looked like a death's-head — no one could look upon him without feeling ashamed of his own life.

  MLU-008

obedience-and-authority

• Have you never read that you should honor your father and your mother? And here you have left me and your dear mother to look after ourselves in our old age.

  MLU-007