Quotes from Martin Luther

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

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

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

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

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.