Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
You have as much laughter as you have faith.
Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Beer is made by men, wine by God.
There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say
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.
There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.
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!
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
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.
A unjust law, is no law at all.
I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.
Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
Here I stand; I can do no other.
They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Pray, and let God worry.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..
It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
No great saint lived without errors.
To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.
As long as we live there is never enough singing.
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands
Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.
Be thou comforted,little dog;thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.
This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.
How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!
Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.
In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.
The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.
Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.
By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.
We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.
Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
Philosophy is the Devil's Whore
Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...
This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.
Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!
God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.
False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.
Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
God does not need our good works, but our neighbor does.
Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.
It is easy enough to do good once or twice, but to keep on doing good without getting disgusted with the ingratitude of those whom we have benefited, that is not so easy.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
![He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/martin-luther-35982.jpg)
He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.
It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.
To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.
Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.
All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.
I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.
Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture.
How can a reason which hates God be called sound?
From you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
