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Martin Luther

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Martin Luther (1483–1546) was a German theologian and religious reformer who sparked the Protestant Reformation by challenging the practices of the Catholic Church. His Ninety-Five Theses, posted in 1517, and his translation of the Bible into German transformed Christianity and helped shape the modern world.

“If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.”

— Martin Luther

Faith

All Quotes by Martin Luther

“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?”

— Martin Luther

Faith

“To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”

— Martin Luther

God

“Reason is the enemy of faith.”

— Martin Luther

Faith

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”

— Martin Luther

Music

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

— Martin Luther

Great

“If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.”

— Martin Luther

Faith

“Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.”

— Martin Luther

Peace

“I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.”

— Martin Luther

Men

“Pray, and let God worry.”

— Martin Luther

Faith

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

— Martin Luther

Faith

“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.”

— Martin Luther

God

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

— Martin Luther

Nature

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

— Martin Luther

Alone

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

— Martin Luther

Alone

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

— Martin Luther

Faith

“All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.”

— Martin Luther

Faith

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

— Martin Luther

Art

“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.”

— Martin Luther

God

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

— Martin Luther

God

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

— Martin Luther

Inspirational