Martin Luther Quotes

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Music is the 5th gospel.

Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

Love is the most durable power in the world.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.

Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

To pray diligently is more than half the task.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!

Our children need our presence, not our presents.

I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.