Martin Luther Quotes
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Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.
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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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Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
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The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and necessary to life here below, are vain and of no effect as to what concerns the life eternal.
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I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.
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Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.
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The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.
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The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.
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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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To progress is always to begin always to begin again.
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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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A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out (Der Sparpfennig ist reicher denn der Zinspfenning).
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Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
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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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If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.
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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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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.
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What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?
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For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.
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At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely.
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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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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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How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.