Martin Luther
I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.Collection: Thinking
Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.Collection: Law
God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.Collection: Men
Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.Collection: Letters
What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice: First, that one should set fire to their synagogues. . . . Then that one should also break down and destroy their houses. . . . That one should drive them out the country.Collection: Christian
The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.Collection: Dog
Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.Collection: Spiritual
Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.Collection: Mother
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.Collection: Forgiveness
Against the flying ball no valor avails.Collection: Flying
Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.Collection: Men
I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word of mouth concerning this treasure, sealing it with the Sacrament of my body and blood, so that you need never doubt. True, it seems little and insignificant that by the washing of water, the Word, and the Sacrament this should all be effected. But don't let your eyes deceive you.Collection: Eye
[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and the Sacrament [i.e., communion/Eucharist/Lord's supper], and incorporated it in the Word and preaching. To our eyes Baptism [capitalized in original] appears to be nothing more than ordinary water, and the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood simple bread and wine, like other bread and wine, and the sermon, hot air from a man's mouth. But we must not trust what our eyes see.Collection: Wine
The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.Collection: Earth
The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.Collection: Laughter
The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.Collection: Heart
Faith is under the left nipple.Collection: Faith
If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.Collection: Kings
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.Collection: Music
People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.Collection: Moon
Christian life consists of faith and charityCollection: Christian
This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.Collection: Grace
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.Collection: Patience
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.Collection: Mother
You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.Collection: Bible
If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.Collection: Law
I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!Collection: Bible
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.Collection: Prayer
Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.Collection: Lying
I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.Collection: Christian
When the Scripture speaks, God speaksCollection: Scripture
All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.Collection: Philosophy
Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.Collection: Men
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.Collection: Dog
Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.Collection: Thinking
Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.Collection: Attractive
The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.Collection: Doe
To pray diligently is more than half the task.Collection: Tasks
Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.Collection: Fear
That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.Collection: Ransom
He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep." They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility; with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly.Collection: Believe
Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.Collection: Understanding
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 work flow.Collection: Thinking
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.Collection: Humble
The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.Collection: Religious
How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don't notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam, but this was nothing in Adam's eyes; he was concerned about one tree and had to ask why God had forbidden him to eat it.Collection: Eye
Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord.Collection: Song
If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.Collection: Believe
A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.Collection: Teaching