Martin Luther Quotes

The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.

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

To do so no more is the truest repentance.

Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.

It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.

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

If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: 'Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!' And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

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

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

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