Martin Luther Quotes
-
so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.
-
Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.
-
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.
-
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
-
Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.
-
He Christ died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
-
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.
-
Lying and guile need only to be revealed and recognized to be undone. When once lying is recognized as such, it needs no second stroke; it falls of itself and vanishes in shame.
-
Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.
-
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
-
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
-
Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
-
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.
-
For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.
-
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
-
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
-
In short, I will preach it the Word, teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.
-
Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.
-
Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.
-
Faith is under the left nipple.
-
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.
-
At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.
-
Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.
-
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.