Martin Luther citations

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“Le chrétien est un homme libre, maître de toutes choses; il n'est soumis à personne.
Le chrétien est un serviteur plein d'obéissance, il se soumet à tous.”

“He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.”

“Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.”

“As long as we live there is never enough singing.”

“No great saint lived without errors.”

“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.”

“No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.”

“To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.”

“Pray, and let God worry.”

“Pestis eram vivus… moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague… dying, I shall be your death.”

“You cannot keep birds from flying over your head
but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair”

“The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!”

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

“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.”

“All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless…For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.”

“We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, " If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him."”

“In particular, at this point also urge governing authorities and parents to rule well and to send their children to school. Point out how they are obliged to do so and what a damnable sin they commit if they do not, for thereby, as the worst enemies of God and humanity, they overthrow and lay waste both the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world. Explain very clearly what kind of horrible damage they do when they do not help to train children as pastors, preachers, civil servants, etc., and tell them that God will punish them dreadfully for this. For in our day and age it is necessary to preach about these things. The extent to which parents and governing authorities are now sinning in these matters defies description. The devil, too, intends to do something horrible in all this.”

“God the Almighty has made our rulers mad; they actually think they can do—and order their subjects to do—whatever they please. And the subjects make the mistake of believing that they, in turn, are bound to obey their rulers in everything.”

“Omnipotence and foreknowledge of God, I repeat, utterly destroy the doctrine of 'free-will' … doubtless it gives the greatest possible offense to common sense or natural reason, that God, Who is proclaimed as being full of mercy and goodness, and so on, should of His own mere will abandon, harden and damn men, as though He delighted in the sins and great eternal torments of such poor wretches. It seems an iniquitous, cruel, intolerable thought to think of God; and it is this that has been such a stumbling block to so many great men down through the ages. And who would not stumble at it? I have stumbled at it myself more than once, down to the deepest pit of despair, so that I wished I had never been made a man. (That was before I knew how health-giving that despair was, and how close to grace”

“Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.”

“[This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them.”

“Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.”

“Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.”

“What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.”