Martin Luther Quotes

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."

"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."

"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

"Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail."

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

"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying."

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."

"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."

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

"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."

"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."

"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world."

"God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars."

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."

"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."

"Pray, and let God worry."

"When I am angry I can pray well and preach well."

"Nothing good ever comes of violence."

"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without."

"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."

"Forgiveness is God's command."

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

"Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God."

"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self."

"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."

"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."

"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."