Martin Luther Quotes (155 Quotes)

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn

When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatre.

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I should have no compassion on these witches I should burn them all

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

It is pleasing to God whenever thou rejoices or laughest from the bottom of thy heart

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.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

Here I stand. I can do no other.

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

Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and ve

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Forgiveness is God's command.

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

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

I maintain that some Jew wrote it (the Book of James) who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

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?

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

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

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

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul...

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Sin is essentially a departure from God.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Mankind has a free will but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

A faithful and good servant is a real godsend but truly 't is a rare bird in the land

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

A safe stronghold our God is still, a trusty shield and weapon.

If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Who loves not women, wine and song, Remains a fool his whole life long.

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

Who loves not wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

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

So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.

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

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

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.