Quotes from Martin Luther

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

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

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people's sins.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. And to be steady on all the battle fields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

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.