Quotes from Martin Luther


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


Blood alone moves the wheels of history.


If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.


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?


The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.


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.


I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.


You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.


Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.


Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.


You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.


To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.


People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.


Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.


Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.


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.


Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.


Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.


Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.


Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.