Martin Luther Quotes
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Sin is essentially a departure from God.
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The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.
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Reason is the enemy of faith.
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We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
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How can a reason which hates God be called sound?
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An armed insurrection ... would hinder and bring into disrepute this spiritual insurrection.
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There can be no doubt that the Virgin Mary is in heaven. How it happened we do not know.
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I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.
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The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.
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Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
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We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.
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A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.
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Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.
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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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Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.
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What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.
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For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that there is nothing which is able to pacify Him but this inestimable price, even the death and the blood of the Son of God, one drop of which is more precious than the whole world.
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Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift.
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If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.
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Those who read and rightly understand my teaching will not start an insurrection; they have not learned that from me.
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Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.
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God's mark is on everything that obeys Him.
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The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.