Martin Luther Quotes

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

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

The devil won't stay where there is music.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.

God wants to be praised for nourishing and cherishing, for He cherishes all creatures. He is not only the Creator, but He is also the Sustainer and Nourisher.

Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.

Thoughts are not subject to duty.

In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!

There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

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

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

If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".

You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

Christian life consists of faith and charity

All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.

Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.

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 was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

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

Drive them [Jews] like mad dogs from our land... let not one of them live.

The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the Spirit. Thus all Christians must became priests, children of God and co-heirs with Christ the Most High Priest.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

To pray diligently is more than half the task.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.

We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went, they made a triumphant witness for Christ. Whether on the village streets or in the city jails, they daringly proclaimed the good news of the gospel.

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow. Such a procedure must also be followed in this instance. Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them, as Moses did... If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

But then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.