Martin Luther

The devil is God’s devil.

The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is the gift of God.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen.

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.

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

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love.

I would have been a saint if I had remained in the monastery, but I was forced to become a devil.

When I am assailed by temptation, I merely eat and drink more, and laugh and joke, and so kill the thoughts.

If I could understand how a good Christian could be a usurer, I would eat him.

Reason is the Devil's greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore, a stinking whore, she is and must be a mischievous whore.

If you are a preacher of grace, then preach not a legal but a true and spiritual grace. If grace is true, you must bear a true and not a fictitious sin. God does not save those who are only fictitious sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

You are not yet a master of the Scriptures. You will find that out when you try to preach.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold on me.

I am a peasant's son; my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were genuine peasants.

The hair is the finest ornament women have.

There are three ways of growing: by study, by experience, and by prayer.

I never learned to pray as I ought until I had been scourged by the devil.