Quotes from Martin Luther

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.