All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
– Martin Luther
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
– Martin Luther
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
– Martin Luther
Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
– Martin Luther
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
– Martin Luther
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
– Martin Luther
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.
– Martin Luther
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
– Martin Luther
Forgiveness is God's command.
– Martin Luther
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
– Martin Luther
How soon not now becomes never.
– Martin Luther
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.
– Martin Luther
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
– Martin Luther
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.
– Martin Luther
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
– Martin Luther
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
– Martin Luther
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
– Martin Luther
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
– Martin Luther
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.
– Martin Luther
Nothing good ever comes of violence.
– Martin Luther
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
– Martin Luther
Pray, and let God worry.
– Martin Luther
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
– Martin Luther
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
– Martin Luther
Reason is the enemy of faith.
– Martin Luther
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
– Martin Luther
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
– Martin Luther
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
– Martin Luther
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
– Martin Luther
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
– Martin Luther
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
– Martin Luther
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
– Martin Luther
The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
– Martin Luther
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
– Martin Luther
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.
– Martin Luther
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
– Martin Luther
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
– Martin Luther
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
– Martin Luther
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
– Martin Luther
When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
– Martin Luther
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
– Martin Luther
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
– Martin Luther
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
– Martin Luther
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
– Martin Luther
Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
– Martin Luther
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
– Martin Luther
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
– Martin Luther
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
– Martin Luther
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
– Martin Luther
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
– Martin Luther
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.
– Martin Luther
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
– Martin Luther
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.
– Martin Luther
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.
– Martin Luther
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
– Martin Luther
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
– Martin Luther
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
– Martin Luther
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
– Martin Luther
Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.
– Martin Luther
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
– Martin Luther
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?