Martin Luther Quotes
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He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.
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I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.
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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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Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith.
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Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics eases and all things seem to be at peace.
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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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I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
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Exhort your household to learn the Ten Commandments word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.
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It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.
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Despair makes priests and friars.
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Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.
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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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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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Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
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A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.
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Christian life consists of faith and charity.
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Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe them My wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.
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God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
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Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.
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The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart.
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As long as we live there is never enough singing.
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Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.
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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.