Martin Luther
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.Collection: Education
Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.Collection: Mother
Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.Collection: Faith
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.Collection: Freedom
To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.Collection: And Love
We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.Collection: Firsts
When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.Collection: Men
Here I stand; I can do no other.Collection: Choices
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?Collection: Wine
Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.Collection: Worry
And I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone. No, never alone. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone.Collection: Jesus
The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.Collection: Christian
My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.Collection: Temptation
What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.Collection: Religious
We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.Collection: Heart
A man cannot do good before he is made good.Collection: Men
What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.Collection: Religious
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.Collection: Hope
I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for himCollection: Laughing
God may delay, but He always comes.Collection: Delay
Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.Collection: Delay
Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.Collection: Faith
Each betrayal begins with trust.Collection: Betrayal
The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.Collection: Clergy
Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; 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.Collection: Spring
Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.Collection: Scripture
When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.Collection: People
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.Collection: Heart
The devil doesn't stay where there is music.Collection: Musical
Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.Collection: Father
Your thoughts of God are too humanCollection: Humans
We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.Collection: Christian
God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.Collection: Hostile
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.Collection: Religious
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.Collection: Anger
There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.Collection: Book
Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!Collection: Spiritual
Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw that Peter's error would lead to the damage of the whole Church unless it were corrected. Therefore he withstood Peter to his face. The Church, Peter, the apostles, angels from heaven, are not to be heard unless they teach the genuine Word of God.Collection: Angel
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itselfCollection: Betrayal
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.Collection: Hope
[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.Collection: Father
Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.Collection: Humor
Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.Collection: Stupid
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.Collection: Religious
The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.Collection: Evil
Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.Collection: Children
At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.Collection: Friday
Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles... We are beggars: this is true.Collection: Years
When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.Collection: Faith