Quotes from Martin Luther

Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

Animals are footprints of God.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.

It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.

I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.

It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.

If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?

God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.