Martin Luther Quotes

Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.

Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.

You only need a heart full of grace

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.

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

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

The devil is God's ape!

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

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

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

Unthankfulness is theft.

A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

Your thoughts of God are too human

Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.

This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.