Martin Luther Quotes
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We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
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We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.
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We must calm the mind of the common man, and tell him to abstain from the words and even the passions which lead to insurrection.
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I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die.
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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
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In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.
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God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of Another -- God alone.
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Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!
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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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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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Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.
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The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.
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The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.
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Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
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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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False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.
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We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.
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To progress is always to begin always to begin again.
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I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.
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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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Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.
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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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Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
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O, this faith is a living, busy, active, powerful thing! It is impossible that it should not be ceaselessly doing that which is good. It does not even ask whether good works should be done; but before the question can be asked, it has done them, and it is constantly engaged in doing them. But he who does not do such works, is a man without faith. He gropes and casts about him to find faith and good works, not knowing what either of them is, and yet prattles and idly multiplies words about faith and good works.