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Whoso hearkens not to God's voice, is an idolator, though he perform the highest and most heavy service of God.
As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.
When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.
God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.
It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you
so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.
Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.
The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.
People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy
What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.
It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.
When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.
Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.
If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.
To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.
Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?
Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.
Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.
Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.
God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].
Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'
Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.