Quotes from Martin Luther

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith in him is unless he knew where his believers are

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

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

Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author.

Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.

Here stand I. I can do no other.

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now; I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, I've. Seen the promised Land.... So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried a out anything, I'm not fearing any man

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than that sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity