Quotes By Martin Luther

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

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

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.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

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

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

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.

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

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

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.