Martin Luther Quotes
-
The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.
-
Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.
-
Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord.
-
Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.
-
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.
-
Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.
-
Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.
-
The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.
-
Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.
-
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.
-
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.
-
I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.
-
We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.
-
God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.
-
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.
-
God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.
-
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.
-
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
-
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself.
-
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.
-
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.
-
...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.
-
As long as we live there is never enough singing.
-
Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.