Martin Luther

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.

If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

God may delay, but He always comes.

The cross alone is our theology.

All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.

You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.

Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.

Faith is the yes of the heart.