Quotes from Martin Luther

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.

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

You should be certain that angels are protecting you when you go to sleep. Yea, that they are protecting you also in all your business, whether you enter or leave your home.

You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.

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

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.