More Quotes by Martin Luther
Pray, and let God worry.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!
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?
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.
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
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.
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you
