Martin Luther Quotes

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."

He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.

Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.

If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

The task is not done. The journey is not complete. We can and we must do more.

All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

God may delay, but He always comes.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

Drive them [Jews] like mad dogs from our land... let not one of them live.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

A penny saved is better than a penny earned.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

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

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

The cross alone is our theology.

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

You only need a heart full of grace