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A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

Martin Luther

Servants
2

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.

Martin Luther

Prayer
3

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

Martin Luther

Angels
4

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

Martin Luther

Equality
5

Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

Martin Luther

Rebellion
6

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luther

Faith
7

Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.

Martin Luther

Weapon
8

Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Martin Luther

Christians and Christianity
9

Christians are rare people on earth.

Martin Luther

Christians and Christianity
10

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

Martin Luther

Pope
11

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther

Belief
12

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Martin Luther

Death and Dying
13

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

World
14

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.

Martin Luther

Faith
15

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Martin Luther

Faith
16

Forgiveness is God's command.

Martin Luther

Forgiveness
17

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Martin Luther

Courage
18

How soon not now, becomes never.

Martin Luther

Procrastination
19

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.

Martin Luther

Education
20

I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Martin Luther

Heart
21

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.

Martin Luther

Integrity
22

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Martin Luther

Music
23

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Martin Luther

Heresy
24

I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of Gods word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now. Nobody is to blame for this except the pope, the bishops, and the prelates, who are all charged with training young people. The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that? I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

Martin Luther

Uncategorised
25

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.

Martin Luther

Missionary
26

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Martin Luther

Laughter
27

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Martin Luther

Hope
28

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Martin Luther

Justice
29

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Martin Luther

Marriage
30

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Martin Luther

Freedom
31

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

Heart
32

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Martin Luther

Music
33

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Martin Luther

Blood
34

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Martin Luther

Eternity
35

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Martin Luther

Truth
36

People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Martin Luther

Principles
37

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

Martin Luther

Reason
38

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Martin Luther

Faith
39

So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.

Martin Luther

Riches
40

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Martin Luther

Preachers and Preaching
41

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Martin Luther

Truth
42

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Martin Luther

Teachers and Teaching
43

The Devil beget darkness; darkness beget ignorance; ignorance beget error and his brethren; error beget free-will and presumption; free-will beget works; works beget forgetfulness of God; forgetfulness beget transgression; transgression beget superstition; superstition beget satisfaction; satisfaction beget the mass-offering; the mass-offering beget the priest; the priest beget unbelief; unbelief beget hypocrisy; hypocrisy beget traffic in offerings for gain; traffic in offerings for gain beget Purgatory; Purgatory beget the annual solemn vigils; the annual vigils beget church-livings; church-livings beget avarice; avarice beget swelling superfluity; swelling superfluity beget fulness; fulness beget rage; rage beget license; license beget empire and domination; domination beget pomp; pomp beget ambition; ambition beget simony; simony beget the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.

Martin Luther

Consequences
44

The devil is God's ape!

Martin Luther

Devil
45

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Martin Luther

Brevity
46

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Martin Luther

God
47

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

Martin Luther

Hair
48

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Martin Luther

Indecision
49

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Martin Luther

Money
50

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

Martin Luther

Books and Reading
51

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Martin Luther

Marriage
52

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

Wisdom
53

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Martin Luther

Devotions
54

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Martin Luther

Friends and Friendship
55

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Martin Luther

Anger
56

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Martin Luther

Christian Church
57

Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.

Martin Luther

Temperament
58

Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.

Martin Luther

Fools and Foolishness
59

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

Martin Luther

Faith
60

You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.

Martin Luther

Jesus Christ

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A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

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.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.

Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Christians are rare people on earth.

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

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.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

How soon not now, becomes never.

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.

I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

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.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

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.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

The devil is God's ape!

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

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.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.

Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.

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

You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.