quotes by Martin Luther

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
— Martin Luther

""We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone." "
— Martin Luther

"Everything that is done in this world is done by hope."
— Martin Luther

"A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs."
— Martin Luther

"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.
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— Martin Luther

"I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer."
— Martin Luther

"I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen"
— Martin Luther

"The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest."
— Martin Luther

"In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children."
— Martin Luther

"You have as much laughter as you have faith"
— Martin Luther

""A unjust law, is no law at all.""
— Martin Luther (Bibelausgaben, Die Bibel nach der Übersetzung Martin Luthers, mit Apokryphen, neue Rechtschreibung, schwarz (Nr. 1241))

"For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the
supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club."
— Martin Luther

"The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices."
— Martin Luther

"There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books."
— Martin Luther

"This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified."
— Martin Luther

"True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue."
— Martin Luther

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him. "
— Martin Luther

"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has. "
— Martin Luther

"It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience."
— Martin Luther

"Beer is made by men, wine by God"
— Martin Luther