Quotes from Martin Luther

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.

Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.

To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.

Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

Pray, and let God worry.

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.