Martin Luther Quotes

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.

The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.

God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.

Thoughts are not subject to duty.

I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

The devil won't stay where there is music.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.

We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out.

Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.

Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.

The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.

Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

There is no gain without struggle.

The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.