Martin Luther Quotes

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther

Hope, Everything, Done

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luther

Truth, Peace, Possible

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

Religion, Life, God

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
Martin Luther

Christ, Bible, Laid

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther

Religion, War, Greatest

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

Feelings, Word, Conscience

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

End, Justice, Die

Forgiveness is God's command.
Martin Luther

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
Martin Luther

Wise, Young, Old

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

Nothing, Else, Lord

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Martin Luther

God, Heart, Whatever

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
Martin Luther

Music, God, Art

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
Martin Luther

God, Goes, Choose

Nothing good ever comes of violence.
Martin Luther

Good, Nothing, Violence

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

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

Life, Faith, Cannot

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

Fail, Actions, Righteous

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
Martin Luther

Whole, Might, Fall

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin Luther

Great, God, Him

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin Luther

History, Alone, Blood

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

Antichrist, Pope, Freer

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
Martin Luther

Faith, Ourselves, Permitting

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

Laugh, Heaven, Allowed

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Martin Luther

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Martin Luther

Peace, Justice, Important

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Leader

Born: November 10, 1483

Died: February 18, 1546

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