Martin Luther Quotes

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.

Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.

Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.

Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

A mighty fortress is our God A bulwark never failing Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.

God uses lust to impel men to marry ambition to office avarice to earning and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Don't hate it's too big a burden to bear.

Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.

Without love benevolence becomes egotism.

Christian life consists in faith and charity.

I want to be the white man's brother not his brother-in-law.

The devil does not stay where music is.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.

The fewer the words the better the prayer.

The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.

Tomorrow I plan to work work from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

Some plague the people with too long sermons for the faculty of listening is a tender thing and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.

Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs I would enter.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.

Peace if possible but truth at any rate.

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.