Quotes from Martin Luther

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"

The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

I'll trust in God's unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.

Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work be done.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.

Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

The body they may kill: God's truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.

Peace if possible but truth at any rate.

We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.

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.

True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.