Martin Luther Quotes

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

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...

There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. W...

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

In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain But the Lord is risen today Christ hath...

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

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

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life ...

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it d...

Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, o...

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation o...

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it...

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

Satan, the god of all dissension stirs up daily new sects. And last of all which of all others I sho...

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on t...

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things,...

Some plague the people with too long sermons for the faculty of listening is a tender thing and so...

A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole...

‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We shoul...

At these words I was utterly stupefied and terror-stricken. I thought to myself, “With what tongue s...

The devil does not stay where music is.

Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.

The fewer the words the better prayer.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime...

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the so...

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will recei...

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

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than...

Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in lif...

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs I would enter.

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not ...

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been institut...

Music is the art of the prophets the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one o...

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not ...

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's h...

I have covenanted with my Lord that He should not send visions, or dreams or even angels! I am conte...

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

Peace if possible but truth at any rate.

Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to ...

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marria...

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses...

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the...

Reason is the enemy of faith.

The fewer the words the better the prayer.

I am bound by conscience and the word of God. Therefore I can and will recant nothing, because to ac...

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in...

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

He who sleeps does not sin.

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

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

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtim...

God uses lust to impel men to marry ambition to office avarice to earning and fear to faith. God ...

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flou...

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord G...

There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and ...

ON GETTING DRUNK:"Those who are Christians are to see to it that they are grateful for grace and red...

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here ...

So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell h...

In his life Christ is an example showingus how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our...

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligen...

Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offer...

What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwh...

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his ...

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and s...

A mighty fortress is our God A bulwark never failing Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills p...

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my s...

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and w...

All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will recei...

A woman must be a woman and cannot be a man. She, too, is God's creature and her divine station is t...

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it d...

Forgiveness is God's command.

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribu...

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach...

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

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtim...

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

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

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it b...

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...

The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this exp...

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and...

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up childr...

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

There are some who are still weak in faith, who ought to be instructed, and who would gladly believe...

It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.