Martin Luther

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God

I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

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

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they in _x000D_ comparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus.