More Quotes by Martin Luther
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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.
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.
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.
