Martin Luther Quotes

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment

Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough.

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.

When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.

I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.

O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

Don't let anybody take your manhood.

Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

I’ve been to the Mountaintop

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.