Martin Luther Quotes
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Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
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I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.
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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
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By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
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The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.
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The Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand, it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand, it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so the soul will have a chance after it is changed.
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Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts. Open your heart, Untie the ribbons, and enjoy the contents! Were earth a thousand times as fair Beset with gold and jewels rare She yet were far too poor to be A narrow cradle, Lord, for Thee.
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Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.
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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
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The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious.
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Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.
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Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.
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I would rather obey than work miracles.
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Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.
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The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.
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God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor.
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The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.
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Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment.
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Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
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What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.