Martin Luther Quotes
Most popular Martin Luther Quotes

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

It is neither safe nor prudent to do aught against conscience.

If you're not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

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

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul.

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

He who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking will never accomplish anything.

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

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

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

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the all divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Besides Theology, Music is the only art capable of affording peace and joy of the heart like that induced by the study of the science of Divinity.

That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.