Martin Luther Quotes And Sayings

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

“If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.”
– Martin Luther

“In his life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live; in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins; in his resurrection, a conqueror; in his ascension, a king; in his intercession, a high priest.”
– Martin Luther

“In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life.”
– Martin Luther

“In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.”
– Martin Luther

“In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain; But the Lord is risen today, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!”
– Martin Luther

“Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?”
– Martin Luther

“It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.”
– Martin Luther

“It is prosperity that we cannot endure.”
– Martin Luther

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

“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
– Martin Luther

“Lord God, I thank thee that thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money to leave behind me.”
– Martin Luther

“Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.”
– Martin Luther

“Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.”
– Martin Luther

“Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the counsels of perfection while ordinary Christians fulfil only the commands; but there simply is no special religious vocation since the call of God comes to each at the common tasks.”
– Martin Luther

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

“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.”
– Martin Luther

“Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.”
– Martin Luther

“My conscience is captive to the Word of God.”
– Martin Luther

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
– Martin Luther

“My temptations have been my Masters in Divinity.”
– Martin Luther

“Next to faith this is the highest art – to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.”
– Martin Luther

“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
– Martin Luther

“Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.”
– Martin Luther

“Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.”
– Martin Luther

“Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that ‘the just shall live by his faith.’ Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise.”
– Martin Luther

“No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.”
– Martin Luther

“Nothing good ever comes of violence.”
– Martin Luther

“Original sin is in us, like the beard. We are shaved today and look clean, and have a smooth chin; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live. Nevertheless we are bound to resist it to our utmost strength, and to cut it down unceasingly.”
– Martin Luther

“Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.”
– Martin Luther

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