Martin Luther Quotes
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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 simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.
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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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The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
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If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!
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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
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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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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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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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The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.
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Faith is under the left nipple.
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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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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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The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
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All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.
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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
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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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Since the law is good, the will, which is hostile to it, cannot be good.
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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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Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.
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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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It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.