Top 30 Martin Luther Quotes

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Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
Martin Luther
To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
Martin Luther
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Martin Luther
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
Martin Luther
Pray, and let God worry.
Martin Luther
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Martin Luther
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin Luther
When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Martin Luther
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
Martin Luther
Nothing good ever comes of violence.
Martin Luther
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin Luther
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Martin Luther
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin Luther
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin Luther
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
Martin Luther
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luther
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luther
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin Luther
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Martin Luther
The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
Martin Luther
Reason is the enemy of faith.
Martin Luther
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther