Martin Luther Quotes
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Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.
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Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.
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Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.
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We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.
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I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.
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The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.
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To Christoph Scheurl (Christophoro Scheurlo), March 5, 1518.
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Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful to me than before. Then I will properly appreciate the sun, the moon, the stars, trees, apples, as I reflect that he is Lord over all things. ...God writes the Gospel, not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
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That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
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Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
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In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.
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Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.
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True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
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The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
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What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.
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Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen
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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 can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.
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By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words - or the words of others?
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Despair makes priests and friars.
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If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
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It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.
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The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.