Martin Luther Quotes
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The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.
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Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.
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We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went, they made a triumphant witness for Christ. Whether on the village streets or in the city jails, they daringly proclaimed the good news of the gospel.
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The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.
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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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The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.
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Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.
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It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.
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What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.
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One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.
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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
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If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.
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Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
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What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?
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For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite.
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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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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
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The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
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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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Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.
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Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.
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Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!
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Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.
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They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?