Martin Luther Quotes

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.

Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

Be true to what you said on paper.

I do not admit that my doctrine can be judged by anyone.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

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.

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

To pray well is the better half of study.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

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.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.

Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.

I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst.

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

Animals are footprints of God.

Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?

God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.