Martin Luther Quotes

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

Who loves not wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long.

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

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

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

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

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

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

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

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.

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

Forgiveness is God's command.

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

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

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.

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

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.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

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.

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

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

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