Quotes from Martin Luther

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

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

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

No great saint lived without errors.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

Be thou comforted,little dog;thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

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

When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

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.

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!

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

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.