Martin Luther Quotes
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The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.
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Against the flying ball no valor avails.
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But the power of God cannot be so determined and measured, for it is uncircumscribed and immeasurable, beyond and above all that is or may be. On the other hand, it must be essentially present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf.
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The hair is the richest ornament of women.
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The cross alone is our theology.
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But then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!
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We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.
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I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him: 'You, Pope, I will not have you for my boss, for I am sure that my doctrine is divine.'
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I say that man without the grace of God nonetheless remains the general omnipotence of God who effects, and moves and impels all things in a necessary, infallible course; but the effect of man's being carried along is nothing-that is, avails nothing in God's sight, nor is reckoned to be anything but sin.
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Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.
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The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
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He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
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God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
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No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.
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In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.
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I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.
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Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.
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When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
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It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.
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Concerning the female sorcerer. Roman law also prescribes this. Why does the law name women more than men here, even though men are also guilty of this? Because women are more susceptible to those superstitions of Satan; take Eve, for example. They are commonly called 'wise women.' Let them be killed.
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Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
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Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.
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Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise.
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.