Martin Luther Quotes
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For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.
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Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
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Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the holy Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing.
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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
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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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The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.
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Each betrayal begins with trust.
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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
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For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need.
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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
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The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.
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Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it one thousand times. This confidence in God's grace and knowledge of it makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures; and this is the work of the Holy Ghost in faith.
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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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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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A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
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Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.
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What is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.
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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
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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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Pray, and let God worry.
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If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
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The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.