More Quotes by Martin Luther
I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
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.
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.
When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
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?
