Martin Luther Quotes
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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
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The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word' in faith and love, and not the 'mere hearers,' who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.
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Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.
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No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
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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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Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you. This praise of work should be inscribed on all tools, on the forehead and the faces that sweat from toiling.
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Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.
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It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
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Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.
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When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.
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I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.
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Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.
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The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came to us in our flesh, laid himself into the womb of his mother and into the manger and went on to the cross. This was the ladder that he placed on earth so that we might ascend to God on it. This is the way you must take.
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If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.
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God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
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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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There is no wisdom save in truth.
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My whole heart and soul are stirred and incensed against the Turks and Mohammed, when I see this intolerable raging of the Devil. Therefore I shall pray and cry to God, nor rest until I know that my cry is heard in heaven.
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Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"
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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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We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.
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Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
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All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.