I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin LutherGood works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.
Martin LutherThe will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
Martin LutherYou should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin LutherWhen some say that 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 all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.
Martin Luther