Martin Luther Quotes
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How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.
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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
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I'll trust in God's unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.
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The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.
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God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.
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If a woman becomes weary and at last dead from bearing, that matters not; let her only die from bearing, she is there to do it.
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Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God-- Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart Whose Word cannot be broken. I'll trust in God's unchanging Word Till soul and body sever, For, though all things shall pass away, HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER!
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I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!
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'For He that is mighty hath done great things for me, and Holy is His Name' (Luke 1:49). Luther comments:
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Animals are footprints of God.
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I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music.
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This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.
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A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God.
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Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.
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Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
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Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with 'free-will', and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because 'free-will' can do nothing.
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
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If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.
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The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.
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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he God has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.