“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”
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Famous Martin Luther Quotes
“Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.”
Source: Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing
“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
“I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.”
“We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.”
“I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.”
“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.”
“Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!”
Source: Martin Luther's Table Talk
Source: Selected Writings of Martin Luther: 1520 523
“Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.”
Source: Commentary on Romans
“It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.”
“He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.”
“All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.”
Source: Concerning Christian Liberty
“They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.”
“Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.”
Source: A Treatise on Good Works
Source: Luther and Erasmus: free will and salvation
Source: Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings
“Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.”
Source: Luther's Works: Career of the reformer
Source: Career of the reformer
Source: The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc
“False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.”
Source: Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
“The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.”
“I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.”
Source: Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
“No great saint lived without errors.”
Source: Dris Martini Lutheri Colloquia Mensalia: Or, Dr Martin Luther's Divine Discourses at His Table,&c: Which in His Life Time Hee Held with Divers Learned Men (such as Were Philip Melancthon, Casparus Cruciger, Justus Jonas, Paulus Eberus, Vitus Dietericus, Joannes Bugenhagen Joannes Forsterus, and Others) Conteining Questions and Answers Touching Religion, and Other Main Points of Doctrine, as Also Many Notable Histories, and All Sorts of Learning, Comforts, Advises, Prophesies, Admonitions, Directions and Instructions. Collected First Together by Dr Antonius Lauterbach, and Afterward Disposed Into Certain Common Places by John Aurifaber Dr in Divinitie. Translated Out of the High Germane Into the English Tongue by Capt. Henrie Bell. ...
Source: Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther