Martin Luther Quotes
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Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
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True faith will no more fail to produce good works than the sun can cease to give light.
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Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.
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You should be certain that angels are protecting you when you go to sleep. Yea, that they are protecting you also in all your business, whether you enter or leave your home.
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All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.
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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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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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No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
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Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.
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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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Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
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I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.
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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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Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.
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If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
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There is on earth among all dangers, no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroid reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an ass to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.
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Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.
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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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I am entirely of the opinion that the papacy is the Antichrist. But if anyone wants to add the Turk, then the Pope is the spirit of the Antichrist, and the Turk is the flesh of the Antichrist. They help each other in their murderous work. The latter slaughters bodily and by the sword, the former spiritually and by doctrine.
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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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We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.
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Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.
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The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands.
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I know God only as he became human, so shall I have him in no other way.'