Martin Luther Quotes
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So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.
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The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.
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The devil is God's ape!
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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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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
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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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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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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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They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
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The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.
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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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An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
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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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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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To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.
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I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.
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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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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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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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The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.
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False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.
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The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.
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Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.
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I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.