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“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
― Martin Luther

“Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.”
― Martin Luther

“You have as much laughter as you have faith.”
― Martin Luther

“Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.”
― Martin Luther

“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”
― Martin Luther

“Feelings come and feelings go,
And feelings are deceiving;
My warrant is the Word of God--
Naught else is worth believing.

Though all my heart should feel condemned
For want of some sweet token,
There is One greater than my heart
Whose Word cannot be broken.

I'll trust in God's unchanging Word
Till soul and body sever,
For, though all things shall pass away,
HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER!”
― Martin Luther

“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
― Martin Luther

“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
― Martin Luther

“God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.”
― Martin Luther

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

[Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538]”
― Martin Luther

“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
― Martin Luther

“One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!”
― 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

“They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.”
― Martin Luther

“It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.”
― Martin Luther

“Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.”
― Martin Luther

“Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. ”
― Martin Luther

“This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.”
― Martin Luther

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien