Quotes By 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.

Forgiveness is God's command.

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.

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 Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

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

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

Pray, and let God worry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

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.

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

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

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

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

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