Quotes from Martin Luther

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

The hair is the richest ornament of women. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

Who loves not wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

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

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy.

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

Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.