Martin Luther Quotes
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Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.
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Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
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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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I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.
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I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
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He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.
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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.
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God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.
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Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
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The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.
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The confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust be right, then is your god also true; and, on the other hand, if your trust be false and wrong, then you have not the true God; for these two belong together faith and God. That now, I say, upon which you set your heart and put your trust is properly your god.
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He who knoweth and understandeth Christ's life, knoweth and understandeth Christ Himself; and in like manner, he who understandeth not His life, doth not understand Christ Himself. And he who believeth on Christ, believeth that His life is the best and noblest life that can be, and if a man believe not this, neither doth he believe on Christ Himself.
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Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
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I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.
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To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.
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The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
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Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.
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If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years.
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If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.
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Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.
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It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
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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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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.