Quotes from Martin Luther

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

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

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God-- Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart Whose Word cannot be broken. I'll trust in God's unchanging Word Till soul and body sever, For, though all things shall pass away, HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER!

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.