Martin Luther Quotes
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Faith is under the left nipple.
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Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be painted on houses, on the inside and the outside, so that all can see it. That would be a Christian work... If it is not a sin but good to have the image of Christ in my heart, why should it be a sin to have it in my eyes? This is especially true since the heart is more important than the eyes, and should be less stained by sin because it is the true abode and dwelling place of God.
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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 Clergy is the greatest hindrance to 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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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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Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!
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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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The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.
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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
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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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We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
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Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.
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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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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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Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.
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It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.
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Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.
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Since the law is good, the will, which is hostile to it, cannot be good.
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Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
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I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.
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We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.
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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.