Martin Luther Quotes

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.

If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.

Against the flying ball no valor avails.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

No one is free until we are all free.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

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.

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.

Here I stand; I can do no other.

We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.

Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.