Quotes By Martin Luther

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Pray, and let God worry.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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

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

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

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

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

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

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

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

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.

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

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

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

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

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.