Martin Luther Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage.
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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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At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.
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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.
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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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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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We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
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What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?
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Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
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Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.
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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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Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.
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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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We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
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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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Faith is under the left nipple.
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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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What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
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In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.
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Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.
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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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The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.