Quotes by Luther, Martin

"The devil is God's ape!"

Luther, Martin on evil
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"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."

Luther, Martin on devotions
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"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."

Luther, Martin on education   

"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects."

Luther, Martin on equality
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"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

Luther, Martin on eternity
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"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."

Luther, Martin on faith   

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

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Reason is the enemy of faith."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long."

Luther, Martin on fools and foolishness
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"Forgiveness is God's command."

Luther, Martin on forgiveness
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"Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more."

Luther, Martin on freedom   

"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer."

Luther, Martin on friends and friendship   

"The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride."

Luther, Martin on god   

"The hair is the richest ornament of women."

Luther, Martin on hair   

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

Luther, Martin on art   

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

Luther, Martin on art
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"I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men."

Luther, Martin on heresy   

"In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible."

Luther, Martin on hope   

"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven."

Luther, Martin on indecision   

"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."

Luther, Martin on integrity
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"You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God."

Luther, Martin on jesus christ   

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

Luther, Martin on justice   

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

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

Luther, Martin on angels   

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

Luther, Martin on anger
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"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage."

Luther, Martin on marriage
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"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

Luther, Martin on marriage
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"If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself."

Luther, Martin on missionaries   

"The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else."

Luther, Martin on money   

"I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us."

Luther, Martin on music   

"Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor."

Luther, Martin on music
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"Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money."

Luther, Martin on pope   

"All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired."

Luther, Martin on prayer
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"Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated."

Luther, Martin on preachers and preaching   

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

Luther, Martin on principles   

"How soon not now, becomes never."

Luther, Martin on procrastination
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"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has."

Luther, Martin on reason   

"Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel."

Luther, Martin on rebellion