It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice:… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public,… — Martin Luther Copy Share
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. — Martin Luther Copy Share
He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved,… — Martin Luther Copy Share
“God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.” — Martin Luther Copy Share
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful. — Martin Luther Copy Share
Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be… — Martin Luther Copy Share
“Our faith in Christ does not free us from works but from false opinions concerning works, that is, from the foolish presumption that justification… — Martin Luther Copy Share
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of… — Martin Luther Copy Share
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we… — Martin Luther Copy Share
“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Romans 3:28” — Martin Luther Copy Share
Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul… — Martin Luther Copy Share
It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators. — Martin Luther Copy Share