Martin Luther Quotes
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Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.
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Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.
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The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.
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Thoughts are not subject to duty.
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Every evening brings us nearer God.
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In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.
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A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.
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Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.
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The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.
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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.
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We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.
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Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.
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Great God, what do I see and hear! The end of things created! The judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of glory seated! The trumpet sounds; the graves restore, The dead which they contained before; Prepare, my soul, to meet Him!
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Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above faith and giving out below love.
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God can be found only in suffering and the cross.
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
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Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.
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Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.
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A unjust law, is no law at all.
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Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.
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God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.
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Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.
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If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.