Quotes from Martin Luther

The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer & more certain than sense & life itself.

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

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

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

Christian life consists in faith and charity.

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.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith.

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

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

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.

Whatever you love most, that is your god.

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.