Martin Luther Quotes
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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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I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
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I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.
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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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Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and riches of his own faith.
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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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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The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
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God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.
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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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Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
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May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.
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For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you.
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Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
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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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Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.
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Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
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We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
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It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.
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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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All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.
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Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
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Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.