Martin Luther Quotes And Sayings

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“The idea that the service to God should have only to do with a church altar, singing, reading, sacrifice, and the like is without doubt but the worst trick of the devil. How could the devil have led us more effectively astray than by the narrow conception that service to God takes place only in a church and by the works done therein. The whole world could abound with the services to the Lord, Gottesdienste – not only in churches but also in the home, kitchen, workshop, field.”
– Martin Luther

“The law of God is what we must do; the gospel is what God will give.”
– Martin Luther

“The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.”
– Martin Luther

“The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.”
– Martin Luther

“The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.”
– Martin Luther

“The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.”
– Martin Luther

“The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.”
– Martin Luther

“The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.”
– Martin Luther

“The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.”
– Martin Luther

“The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider – the riders contend for its possession.”
– Martin Luther

“The world is a den of murderers, subject to the devil. If we desire to live on earth, we must be content to be guests in it, and to lie in an inn where the host is a rascal, whose house has over the door this sign or shield, ‘For murder and lies.’”
– Martin Luther

“There is no more lovely, friendly or charming relationship, communion or company, than a good marriage.”
– Martin Luther

“There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.”
– Martin Luther

“They gave our Master a crown of thorns. Why do we hope for a crown of roses?”
– Martin Luther

“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
– Martin Luther

“To do so no more is the truest repentance.”
– Martin Luther

“To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”
– Martin Luther

“Tomorrow I plan to work, work, from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”
– Martin Luther

“Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason. I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other – my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.”
– Martin Luther

“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.”
– Martin Luther

“We all carry about in our pockets His very nails.”
– Martin Luther

“What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow.”
– Martin Luther

“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.”
– Martin Luther

“When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called her Eva, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother, mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.”
– Martin Luther

“When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.”
– Martin Luther

“When schools flourish, all flourishes.”
– Martin Luther

“Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.”
– Martin Luther

“Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.”
– Martin Luther

“Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.”
– Martin Luther

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”
– Martin Luther

“You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.”
– Martin Luther

“You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, ”That is God.””
– Martin Luther

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