He may have been a theology teacher hundreds of years ago - as a matter of fact the picture above is where he lived when he began teaching theology in 1508 - but he has wise words for us as Christian men today.  Read his quotes below. What one spurs you on to better living?  What draws you closer to Christ? What makes you think?

“We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”
― Martin Luther

“So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!”
― Martin Luther

“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”
― Martin Luther

“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”
― Martin Luther

“True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.”
― Martin Luther

“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 in God's unchanging Word
Till soul and body sever,
For, though all things shall pass away,
HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER!”
― Martin Luther

“Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.”
― Martin Luther

“God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.”
― Martin Luther

“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”
― Martin Luther

“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
― Martin Luther

“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.”
― Martin Luther

“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 Luther

“I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.”
― Martin Luther

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."
― Martin Luther

"Forgiveness is God's command."
― Martin Luther

"Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God."
― Martin Luther

"Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see."
― Martin Luther

"If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old." (This is a key principle of BetterMan!)
― Martin Luther

"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
― Martin Luther

Challenging words from hundreds of years ago, but totally applicable today.  Which one struck you most? What will be different when you respond?