Martin Luther Quotes
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When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
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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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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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Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.
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Faith is the yes of the heart.
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Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.
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Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.
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You have as much laughter as you have faith.
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God can be found only in suffering and the cross.
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All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself.
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People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.
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Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
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Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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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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It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.
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I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.
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Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover.
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What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice: First, that one should set fire to their synagogues. . . . Then that one should also break down and destroy their houses. . . . That one should drive them out the country.
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Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.
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Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.
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Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.
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One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
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We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.
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A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.