Martin Luther
Reason is the enemy of faith.Collection: Faith
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.Collection: God
Forgiveness is God's command.Collection: Forgiveness
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.Collection: Anniversary
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.Collection: Peace
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.Collection: Faith
Pray, and let God worry.Collection: Faith
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.Collection: Inspirational
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.Collection: God
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.Collection: Marriage
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.Collection: Alone
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.Collection: God
Nothing good ever comes of violence.Collection: Good
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.Collection: History
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.Collection: Great
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.Collection: Faith
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.Collection: Alone
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.Collection: Alone
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.Collection: God
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.Collection: God
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.Collection: Faith
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?Collection: Faith
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.Collection: Religion
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.Collection: God
When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.Collection: Anger
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.Collection: Music
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.Collection: Faith
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.Collection: Faith
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.Collection: Nature
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.Collection: Music
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.Collection: War
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.Collection: Fear
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.Collection: Hope
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: God
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.Collection: God
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.Collection: Faith
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.Collection: Peace
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
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.
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
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.
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.