Quotes from Martin Luther
Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
- Martin Luther
If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
- Martin Luther
At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.
- Martin Luther
Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.
- Martin Luther
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
No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.
- Martin Luther
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.
- Martin Luther
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
- Martin Luther
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.
- Martin Luther
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.
- Martin Luther
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.
- Martin Luther
They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
- Martin Luther