Quotes from Martin Luther
The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.
- Martin Luther
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
- Martin Luther
We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
- Martin Luther
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
- Martin Luther
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!
- Martin Luther
God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
- Martin Luther
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
- Martin Luther
The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
- Martin Luther
Teaching is of more importance than urging.
- Martin Luther
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
- Martin Luther
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
- Martin Luther
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
- Martin Luther