Martin Luther Quotes
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Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
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There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.
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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 winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.
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War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
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One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
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We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
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Each betrayal begins with trust.
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We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
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Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.
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This letter to the Romans is truly the most important piece in the New Testament. It is purest Gospel. It is well worth a Christian's while not only to memorize it word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul. It is impossible to read or to meditate on this letter too much or too well. The more one deals with it, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes.
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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
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Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.
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I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now.
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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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What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
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Man is by nature unable to want God to be God. Indeed, he himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God.
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I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
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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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Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.
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The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
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Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.