Martin Luther Quotes
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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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I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
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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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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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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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The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.
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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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Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.
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I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now.
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If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
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If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
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Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
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Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.
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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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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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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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I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.
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What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
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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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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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The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
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We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.