Quotes by Martin Luther

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Martin Luther was a German friar, priest and professor of theology who was a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Initially an Augustinian friar, Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar, with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the Pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Emperor.
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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.

Martin Luther

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Martin Luther

The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life a...

Martin Luther

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

Martin Luther

He who sleeps does not sin.

Martin Luther

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

Martin Luther

Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebenlang (He who loves not Wine, Women and Song Remains a fool his whole life long)

Martin Luther

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him

Martin Luther

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

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

Martin Luther

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

Martin Luther

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

Martin Luther

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Martin Luther

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Martin Luther

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

Martin Luther

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Martin Luther

Pray, and let God worry.

Martin Luther

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Martin Luther

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

Martin Luther

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luther

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

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Author Bio

  • NameMartin Luther
  • DescriptionGerman monk, priest, and professor of theology, seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
  • AliasesLuther
  • BornNovember 10, 1483
  • DiedFebruary 18, 1546
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionLinguist; Translator; Theologian; Writer