Martin Luther Quotes

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

Be true to what you said on paper.

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

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.

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

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.

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

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

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

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

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.

God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.

The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.

Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.

It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.

Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

Nothing is easier than sinning.

For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.