Martin Luther Quotes
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The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.
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Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.
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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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God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
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Christian life consists of faith and charity.
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The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.
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One is not righteous who does much, but the one who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, 'Do this,' and it is never done. Grace says, 'Believe in this,' and everything is already done.
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Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.
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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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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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Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.
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But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.
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The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart.
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It is essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject.
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The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.
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Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?
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You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
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One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
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Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.
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Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.
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Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing.
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God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.
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Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.