It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

Martin Luther

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

Martin Luther

drinking sleep funny

Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

Martin Luther

scripture safe helping

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Martin Luther

religious god inspirational

From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.

Martin Luther

angel dream fall

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

Martin Luther

christian faith people

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

Martin Luther

music god inspirational

Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.

Martin Luther

done religious praying

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

Martin Luther

sin might jesus

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Martin Luther

humility long world

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Martin Luther

becoming christian faith

A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

Martin Luther

fart ass miserable

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

christian god life

Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

Martin Luther

week forget people

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

Martin Luther

hope faith inspirational

The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

Martin Luther

teaching christian children

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

Martin Luther

powerful prayer believe

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

Martin Luther

finished growing process

We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.

Martin Luther

forget-it forget needs

Pray, and let God worry.

Martin Luther

encouraging trust hope

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

Martin Luther

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