Martin Luther

If you want to have a good laugh, read the Papal Bulls. They are so full of nonsense that they will make you split your sides.

The world is like a drunken peasant. If you help him to mount on one side of his horse, he tumbles off on the other.

I would have all Christians educated enough to be able to read the Bible. It is not for priests alone, but for all.

I would have all Christians educated enough to be able to read the Bible. It is not for priests alone, but for all.

The Christian's life is not a bed of roses, but a cross.

The Christian's life is not a bed of roses, but a cross.

Reason is the Devil's greatest whore.

A woman is a human being with a womb.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals.

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. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

If you are a preacher of grace, then preach a true and not a fictitious grace; if grace is true, you must bear a true and not a fictitious sin.

I cannot pray without cursing.

The world is like a drunken peasant. If you lift him into the saddle on one side, he will fall off on the other.

I have often tried to be angry with the devil, but I cannot; he is such a merry knave.

Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?

If I am to be executed, I would rather be executed by the Pope than by my own people.

I have so much to do today that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

The soul can do without anything except the Word of God, without which there is no help for it at all.

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

A cow has a more certain faith than a hundred thousand Papists.