Martin Luther Quotes
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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
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Dieser yrthum von freyen willen ist eyn eygen Artickel des Endchrist.
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What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
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At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
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Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts. Open your heart, Untie the ribbons, and enjoy the contents! Were earth a thousand times as fair Beset with gold and jewels rare She yet were far too poor to be A narrow cradle, Lord, for Thee.
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Forgiveness is God's command.
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O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.
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It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.
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This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.
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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.
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The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.
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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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I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
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All seed except Mary was vitiated by original sin.
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As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and does not utterly despair of himself, and so is not humbled before God. Such a man plans out for himself a position, an occasion, a work, which shall bring him final salvation, but which will not.
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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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The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
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If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.
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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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Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.
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All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.
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Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.
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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.