Church Quotes by Martin Luther

When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.

— Martin Luther

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

— Martin Luther

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

— Martin Luther

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

— Martin Luther

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

— Martin Luther

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

— Martin Luther

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

— Martin Luther

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how…

— Martin Luther

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

— Martin Luther

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

— Martin Luther

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

— Martin Luther

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

— Martin Luther

“Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine”

— Martin Luther

Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your…

— Martin Luther

If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people…

— Martin Luther

Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as…

— Martin Luther

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social…

— Martin Luther

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is…

— Martin Luther

I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons,…

— Martin Luther

It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church.…

— Martin Luther

Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with…

— Martin Luther

Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw…

— Martin Luther

Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace.…

— Martin Luther

The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it…

— Martin Luther

May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain…

— Martin Luther

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

— Martin Luther

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of…

— Martin Luther

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

— Martin Luther

The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the…

— Martin Luther

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and…

— Martin Luther

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that…

— Martin Luther

No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose,…

— Martin Luther

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the…

— Martin Luther

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God.…

— Martin Luther

We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the…

— Martin Luther