Martin Luther

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

I did nothing. The Word did it all.

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

Nothing is easier than sinning.

If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.

No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.

I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more, that we let God alone work in us and that we do nothing of our own with all our powers.

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; _x000D_ Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: _x000D_ For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; _x000D_ His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, _x000D_ On earth is not his equal.

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.