Martin Luther Quotes
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We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.
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If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.
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The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.
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I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.
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Teaching is of more importance than urging.
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We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
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Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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The Bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.
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I shall not have it judged by any man, not even by any angel. For since I am certain of it, I shall be your judge and even the angels’ judge through this teaching (as St. Paul says 1 Cor. 6:3) so that whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God’s teaching and not mine.
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Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.
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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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If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".
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Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!
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We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.
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We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.
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Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
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A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
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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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Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.
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Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"
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The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.
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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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Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.