Martin Luther Quotes

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.

You should be certain that angels are protecting you when you go to sleep. Yea, that they are protecting you also in all your business, whether you enter or leave your home.

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

What are you doing for others?

Faith is under the left nipple.

A lie cannot live.

Christian life consists of faith and charity

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.

The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

I am what I am because of who we all are.

The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.

If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.

In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.