Quotes from Martin Luther

Be thou comforted,little dog;thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!

Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.