“I will say something still easier. Take a single flea or louse-since you tempt and mock our God with this talk about… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The Church of Rome ... has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“to call a man without the Holy Spirit "upright and God-fearing" is the same as calling Belial "Christ".” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“These words of yours, devoid of Christ, devoid of Spirit, are colder than ice itself, so that they tarnish the beauty of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“a quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“[Rome], who was formerly the gate of heaven, is now a sort of open mouth of hell.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Stop your complaining, stop your doctoring; this tumult has arisen and is direct from above, and it will not cease till it… — 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 Image
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 Image
If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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 Image
“God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Romans 3:28” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image