Martin Luther Quotes
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Despair makes priests and friars.
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The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.
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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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One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.
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You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before.
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
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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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God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing.
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To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
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In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.
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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.
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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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Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
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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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It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
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I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.
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There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
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No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.
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Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.
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The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart.
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We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.
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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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Christian life consists of faith and charity.
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Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.