Martin Luther Quotes
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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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so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.
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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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Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.
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Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
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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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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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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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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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What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?
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Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.
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We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
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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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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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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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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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The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.
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What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
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Faith is under the left nipple.
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God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.
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We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
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It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness and wellbeing, he may be enabled to labour, and to acquire and preserve property, for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfiling the law of Christ.
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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.