Martin Luther

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

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?

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

A woman must be a woman and cannot be a man. She, too, is God's creature and her divine station is that she should bear and care for and rear children. So I am a man created for another office and work. But should I be proud because of this and say: I am not a woman, therefore I am better in the sight of God? Should I not rather praise God for creating both the woman and me also through the woman and putting me in this station? What a un-Christian thing it is that one should despire another because he is in another station or is doing something other then he is doing?... "Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled." for God will not and can not tolerate such pride and arrogance.

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

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

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.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

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.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.