Martin Luther
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
When schools flourish, all flourishes.
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
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.
The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Safe
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.Collection: Inspirational
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!Collection: Funny
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.Collection: Dream
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.Collection: Faith
Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.Collection: Religious
Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.Collection: Jesus
God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.Collection: Humility
A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.Collection: Miserable
It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do!Collection: Bother
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.Collection: Faith
God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of Another -- God alone.Collection: Men
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not sayCollection: Responsibility
It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.Collection: Morning
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own handsCollection: Lying
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it one thousand times. This confidence in God's grace and knowledge of it makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures; and this is the work of the Holy Ghost in faith.Collection: Faith
When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.Collection: Comfort
Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.Collection: Men
The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?Collection: Christian
May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.Collection: Christian
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.Collection: Prayer
The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.Collection: Grace
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.Collection: Years
This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer ours but Christ's; and the righteousness of Christ is not Christ's but ours. He has emptied himself of his righteousness that he might clothe us in it, and fill us with it: and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us from them.Collection: Spiritual
A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of GodCollection: Cows
Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.Collection: Work
Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.Collection: Law
If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.Collection: Grace
Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.Collection: Crowns
A unjust law, is no law at all.Collection: Law
Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.Collection: Strong
To pray well is the better half of study.Collection: Prayer
After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.Collection: Music
The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.Collection: Running
Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.Collection: Church
Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.Collection: Christian
We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.Collection: Religious
The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.Collection: Leadership
Nothing is easier than sinning.Collection: Easier
All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.Collection: Grace
Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.Collection: Ghost