Martin Luther Quotes
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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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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
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so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.
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This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.
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Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!
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The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
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It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.
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Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles... We are beggars: this is true.
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If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
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Sin cannot tear you away from him Christ even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.
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Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.
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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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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.
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Animals are footprints 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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What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.
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Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.
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But since the devil's bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks she's wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because reason is the Devil's greatest whore.
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Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness - this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain.
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Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.
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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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Prayer is climbing up into the heart 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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For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.