People Quotes by Martin Luther

Christians are rare people on earth.

— Martin Luther

Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.

— Martin Luther

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

— Martin Luther

People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.

— Martin Luther

Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

— Martin Luther

I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.

— Martin Luther

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

— Martin Luther

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

— Martin Luther

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and…

— Martin Luther

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and…

— Martin Luther

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

— Martin Luther

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make…

— 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

That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want…

— Martin Luther

Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to…

— Martin Luther

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to…

— Martin Luther

When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who…

— Martin Luther

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and…

— Martin Luther

Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one,…

— Martin Luther

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to…

— Martin Luther

Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple,…

— Martin Luther

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

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the…

— Martin Luther

What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice:…

— Martin Luther

The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but…

— Martin Luther

On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.…

— Martin Luther

Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly…

— Martin Luther

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

— Martin Luther

People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy

— Martin Luther

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

— 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

Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.

— Martin Luther

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

— Martin Luther

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate…

— 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

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

— Martin Luther

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

— Martin Luther

The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one…

— 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

Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from…

— Martin Luther