Martin Luther quotes:

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

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

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

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.

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

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Forgiveness is God's command.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

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.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

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

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

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

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

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

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

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.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.

The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

In accusing me of being a damnable sinner, you are cutting your own throat, Satan. You are reminding me of God's fatherly goodness toward me, that He so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. In calling me a sinner, Satan, you really comfort me above measure.

Well, there is nothing we can do about it. We have to put up with these snakes, dogs, and swine surrounding us and corrupting the Gospel both in doctrine and in life. Wherever there are faithful preachers they always have to take this. Such is the fortune of the Gospel in the world."

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it."

Here again Diatribe confidently brings in a gloss to suit herself, just as if Scripture were under her complete control. As for considering the prophet's meaning and intention, what need was there for a man of such authority to do that? All we need is: Erasmus says so, therefore it is so."

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe."

A man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body to work for it alone, but he lives also for all men on earth; rather, he lives only for others and not for himself. To this end he brings his body into subjection that he may the more sincerely and freely serve others."

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.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

An angel is a spiritual being, created by god without a body, for the service of Christendom.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.

The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.

Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.

Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

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

Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

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

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

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.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Each betrayal begins with trust.

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

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain.

A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.

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

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

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

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...

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is there to do it.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

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?

Christian life consists of faith and charity

Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

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

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.

People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy

It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.

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

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

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

Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

If the peasants are in open rebellion, then they are outside the law of God. Therefore let all who are able slash, strike down, and kill (those who rebel) openly and secretly, remembering that there can be nothing more venomous, harmful, or devilish than a rebel. It is exactly like killing a mad dog.

Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

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.

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits....

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

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

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

The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word' in faith and love, and not the 'mere hearers,' who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the counsels of perfection while ordinary Christians fulfill only the commands; but there simply is no special religious vocation since the call of God comes to each at the common tasks.

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.

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.