Ed Martin Quotes

The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.

We should die relying on grace alone

Whatever we make the most of is our God.

I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.

Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith.

He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.

Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics eases and all things seem to be at peace.

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the strongest sorts.

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.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

Let whatsoever will or can befall me, I will surely cleave by my sweet Savior Christ Jesus, for in Him am I baptized; I can neither do nor know anything but only what He has taught me.

We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides.

Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.

We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.

The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.

The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

Whoso hearkens not to God's voice, is an idolator, though he perform the highest and most heavy service of God.

Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"

Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.

Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.

The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.

If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving.

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away