Martin Luther Quotes And Sayings

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“For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.”
– Martin Luther

“Forgiveness is God’s command.”
– Martin Luther

“God has set the type of marriage everywhere throughout the creation. Every creature seeks its perfection in another. The very heavens and earth picture it to us.”
– Martin Luther

“God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.”
– Martin Luther

“God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.”
– Martin Luther

“Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.”
– Martin Luther

“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.”
– Martin Luther

“Hell is paved with good intentions.”
– Martin Luther

“Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.”
– Martin Luther

“Holiness consisteth not in a cowl or in a garment of gray. When God purifies the heart by faith, the market is sacred as well as the sanctuary; neither remaineth there any work or place which is profane.”
– Martin Luther

“How soon not now, becomes never.”
– Martin Luther

“Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.”
– Martin Luther

“I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”
– Martin Luther

“I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, self.”
– Martin Luther

“I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.”
– Martin Luther

“I feel as if Jesus Christ died only yesterday.”
– Martin Luther

“I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.”
– Martin Luther

“I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.”
– Martin Luther

“I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.”
– Martin Luther

“I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.”
– Martin Luther

“I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.”
– Martin Luther

“I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.”
– Martin Luther

“I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.”
– Martin Luther

“I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.”
– Martin Luther

“If ever a man could be saved by monkery, that man was I.”
– Martin Luther

“If ever a monk could get to heaven through monastic discipline, I was that monk. And yet my conscience would not give me certainty, but I always doubted and said, ‘You didn’t do that right. You weren’t contrite enough. You left that out of your confession.’ The more I tried to remedy an uncertain, weak, and troubled conscience with human traditions, the more I daily found it more uncertain, weaker, and more troubled.”
– Martin Luther

“If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.”
– Martin Luther

“If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.”
– Martin Luther

“If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the Gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the Gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the Gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.”
– Martin Luther

“If thou art wise thou knowest thine own ignorance; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thyself.”
– Martin Luther

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