Martin Luther Quotes

What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.

The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.

To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

Christians are rare people on earth.

He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.

The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

It is the most ungodly and dangerous business to abandon the certain and revealed will of God in order to search in to the hidden mysteries of God.

True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.

When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."

Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.

I judge people by their own principles..not by my own

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.

It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.

Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.

Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.

Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.

Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.

I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.