Quotes from Martin Luther

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

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

We will have to depend in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people

Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

A unjust law, is no law at all.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair

I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Pray, and let God worry.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

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

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 hands

Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.