Martin Luther Quotes

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.

Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.

To do so no more is the truest repentance.

Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.

Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.