Martin Luther Quotes

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.
Martin Luther
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther
Peace if possible but truth at any rate.
Martin Luther
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.
Martin Luther
Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs I would enter.
Martin Luther
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.
Martin Luther
Some plague the people with too long sermons for the faculty of listening is a tender thing and soon becomes weary and satiated.
Martin Luther
The fewer the words the better the prayer.
Martin Luther
I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.
Martin Luther
Tomorrow I plan to work work from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
Martin Luther
The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.
Martin Luther
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.
Martin Luther
The devil does not stay where music is.
Martin Luther
Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs I would enter.
Martin Luther
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.
Martin Luther
Some plague the people with too long sermons for the faculty of listening is a tender thing and soon becomes weary and satiated.
Martin Luther
The fewer the words the better the prayer.
Martin Luther
I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.
Martin Luther
Tomorrow I plan to work work from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
Martin Luther
The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.
Martin Luther
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.
Martin Luther
The devil does not stay where music is.
Martin Luther
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
Martin Luther
Christian life consists in faith and charity.
Martin Luther
Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther
God uses lust to impel men to marry ambition to office avarice to earning and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
Martin Luther
All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther
A mighty fortress is our God A bulwark never failing Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.
Martin Luther
Forgiveness is God's command.
Martin Luther
Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
Martin Luther
Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
Martin Luther
In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain But the Lord is risen today Christ hath brought us life again Wherefore let us all rejoice Singing loud with cheerful voice Hallelujah!
Martin Luther
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther
Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope self.
Martin Luther
The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
Martin Luther
Christian life consists of faith and charity.
Martin Luther
The fewer the words the better prayer.
Martin Luther
Music is the art of the prophets the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger for when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
Martin Luther
Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.
Martin Luther
To an unbelieving person nothing renders service or work for good. He himself is in servitude to all things, and all things turned out for evil to him, because he uses all things in impious way for his own advantage, and not for the glory of God.
Martin Luther
It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.
Martin Luther
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.
Martin Luther
the Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all Churches, has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin, death, and hell; so that not even antichrist, if he were to come, could devise any addition to its wickedness.
Martin Luther
He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
Martin Luther
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
Martin Luther
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage.
Martin Luther
If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy.
Martin Luther
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
Martin Luther
Love is not only pure joy, and delight, but also great and deep heaviness of heart and sorrow. But love too is full of joy and sweetness even in bitter sorrow, because it regards the misery and injury of others as its own. So also Christ was glowing with burning love in His last and greatest agony. According to St. Hilary, it was Christ's greatest joy that He endured the greatest woe. Thus God "giveth strength and power unto His people" (Ps. 68:15). While they experience the greatest sorrow, their hearts overflow with joy.
Martin Luther
To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.
Martin Luther
Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep. And this you may do by inveighing against the laws and lawgivers, and yet at the same time observing these laws with the weak, lest they be offended, until they shall themselves recognize the tyranny, and understand their own liberty.
Martin Luther
If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe them...My wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners...It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garment...But even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.
Martin Luther
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...
Martin Luther
It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.
Martin Luther
There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. Why is it, then, that we leave the good out of sight and feast our eyes on the unclean things? It is as though we enjoyed only looking at – if you will pardon the expression – a man's behind.
Martin Luther