COMMENTS ON PSALM 122 Martin Luther 1483-1546 Verse 6.—Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, let them prosper that love thee. To pray for the peace of Jerusalem, is to pray for the safety, prosperity, and welfare of the church of God, that Satan have no power to hinder the course and fruit of the word. …
Author: Martin Luther
Let it please the Lord to take me out of this life this hour, or whensoever He pleaseth, I leave this behind me, that I do and will acknowledge Jesus Christ for my Lord and my God. I have not this out of the Scripture only, but also by great and manifold experience; for the …
Take heed of crying, tomorrow, tomorrow, for a man lives forty years before he knows himself to be a fool, and by the time he sees his folly, his life is finished: so men die before they begin to live. M. Luther.
The more godly a man is the more doth he feel the battle between the flesh and the spirit. Hereof cometh those lamentable complaints in the Psalms and other Scriptures. It profiteth us very much to sometimes feel the wickedness of our nature, and corruption of the flesh, that we may be wakened and stirred …
” HOPE THOU IN GOD ” For feelings come, and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving: My warrant is the Word of God, Naught else is worth believing; Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart, Whose Word cannot be broken; I’ll trust …
A LETTER OF CONSOLATION IN THE LAST ILLNESS OF HIS MOTHER By Martin Luther (May 20th, 1531) Grace and peace in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! Amen. My dearly loved mother, I have heard of your illness from my brother Jacob, and am much grieved that I cannot be with you in person, but …
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by Martin Luther to his friend Justas Jonas (a) in a time of family affliction and during the prevalence of the Plague in Wittenburg.