The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?
Martin LutherPrayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.
Martin LutherGod uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
Martin LutherOne learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
Martin Luther