Martin Luther Quotes

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious

Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.

Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.

Sin is essentially a departure from God.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

We must substitute courage for caution.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times

If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.

How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian.

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Forgiveness is God's command.

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.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.