More Quotes by Martin Luther
The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.
But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
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?
No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
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.
When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
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.
