Quotes By Martin Luther

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

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

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

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

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

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.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

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

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

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

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

Forgiveness is God's command.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.