Martin Luther Quotes And Sayings

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“Our Lord God doeth work like a printer, who setteth the letters backward; we see and feel well His setting, but we shall see the print yonder in the life to come.”
– Martin Luther

“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.”
– Martin Luther

“Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.”
– Martin Luther

“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
– Martin Luther

“Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.”
– Martin Luther

“People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.”
– Martin Luther

“Pray, and let God worry.”
– Martin Luther

“Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.”
– Martin Luther

“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.”
– Martin Luther

“Reason is the enemy of faith.”
– Martin Luther

“Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God’s Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.”
– Martin Luther

“Sin is, essentially, a departure from God.”
– Martin Luther

“So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.”
– Martin Luther

“Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.”
– Martin Luther

“Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.”
– Martin Luther

“Teaching is of more importance than urging.”
– Martin Luther

“Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.”
– Martin Luther

“The allegory of a sophist is always screwed; it crouches and bows like a snake, which is never straight, whether she go, creep, or lie still; only when she is dead, she is straight enough.”
– Martin Luther

“The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.”
– Martin Luther

“The defects of a preacher are soon spied. Let him be endued with ten virtues, and have but one fault, and that one fault will eclipse and darken all his virtues and gifts, so evil is the world in these times.”
– Martin Luther

“The devil does not stay where music is.”
– Martin Luther

“The fewer the words, the better the prayer.”
– Martin Luther

“The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone. How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?”
– Martin Luther

“The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.”
– Martin Luther

“The hair is the richest ornament of women.”
– Martin Luther

“The hair is the richest ornament of women. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.”
– Martin Luther

“The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.”
– Martin Luther

“The highest gift and favor of God is a pious, kind, godly, and domestic wife, with whom thou mayest live peaceably, and to whom thou mayest intrust all thy possessions, yea, thy body and thy life.”
– Martin Luther

“The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.”
– Martin Luther

“The human heart is like the millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds the wheat into flour. If you put no wheat in, it still grinds on, but then it is itself it grinds and slowly wears away.”
– Martin Luther

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