Martin Luther Quotes
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How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.
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Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
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It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.
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The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.
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Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.
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They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
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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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Faith ever says, 'If Thou wilt,' not 'If Thou canst.'
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As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
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So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.
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Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
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Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
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At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
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One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.
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What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.
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The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.
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God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.
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A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.
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Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.
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Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
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I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!
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Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.
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Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?
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Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.