Quotes from Martin Luther

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people's sins.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. And to be steady on all the battle fields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

God does not need our good works, but our neighbor does.

That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.