Martin Luther Quotes
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We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.
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If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
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If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.
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Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.
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Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
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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.
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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.
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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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War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
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Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
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You must not murder.(Exodus 20:13) Q. What does this mean? A. We should fear and love God so that we may not hurt or harm our neighbor in his body, but help and befriend him in every bodily need in every need and danger of life and body.
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The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.
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In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.
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It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.
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A person must take care to exercise moderate discipline over the body and subject it to the Spirit by means of fasting, vigils, and labor. The goal is to have the body obey and conform-and not hinder-the inner person and faith. Unless it is held in check, we know it is the nature of the body to undermine faith and the inner person.
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Nothing good ever comes of violence.
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When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.
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Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
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I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
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He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
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Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
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When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.
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There is no need for you to develop an armed insurrection. Christ himself has already begun an insurrection with his mouth.
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Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.