Quotes by Martin Luther
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Let whatsoever will or can befall me, I will surely cleave by my sweet Savior Christ Jesus, for in Him am I baptized; I can neither do nor know anything but only what He has taught me.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

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

Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

May the Lord, whose cause this is, enlighten you and make you a vessel to honour and glory. Amen.

Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior.

Animals are footprints of God.

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

Unthankfulness is theft.

For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.

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.

The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

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

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

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.

Even if those in authority are evil or without faith, nevertheless the authority and its power is good and from God…. Therefore, where there is power and where it flourishes, there it is and there it remains because God has ordained it.

It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving.

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.

For feelings come and feelings go,
And feelings are deceiving;
My warrant is the Word of God -
Naught else is worth believing.
I'll trust in God's unchanging Word
Till soul and body sever,
For, though all things shall pass away,
His Word shall stand forever!

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

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.

My dear pope, I will kiss your feet and acknowledge you as supreme bishop if you will worship my Christ and grant that through His death and resurrection, not through keeping your traditions, we have forgiveness of sins and life eternal.

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

Despair makes priests and friars.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.

If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God.

When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.

Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides.

No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

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

The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

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.

You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say.

Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles... We are beggars: this is true.

Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

Faith is under the left nipple.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.

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

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

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