Martin Luther Quotes

"He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher"

"It is pleasing to God whenever thou rejoices or laughest from the bottom of thy heart"

"Pray, and let God worry"

"When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor"

"A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing."

"A safe stronghold our God is still,/ A trusty shield and weapon."

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

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

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

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

"Nothing good ever comes of violence."

"The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good."

"How soon not now, becomes never."

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

"Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging."

"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."

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

"Peace if possible, but truth at any rate."

"Blood alone moves the wheels of history."

"Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake"