110+ Martin Luther Quotes On Faith, Bible And Prayer

Martin Luther was a German monk who was a major figure in the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. He famously published the 95 Theses, which criticized the Catholic Church and sparked the Protestant Reformation. Luther's teachings and writings, such as his translation of the Bible into German, had a lasting impact on Christianity and Western culture. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Martin Luther on faith, bible, love.

Top 10 Martin Luther Quotes

1. 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.
2. Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
3. 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!
4. 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
5. God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
6. 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.
7. God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
8. A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
9. A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it
10. The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

Martin Luther Image Quotes

As long as we live there is never enough singing. — Martin Luther

A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass. — Martin Luther

Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god. — Martin Luther

Peace if possible, truth at all costs. — Martin Luther

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. — Martin Luther

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor. — Martin Luther

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. — Martin Luther

Nothing good ever comes of violence. — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Short Quotes

• When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
• Pray, and let God worry.
• A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.
• Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
• Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.
• Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
• Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
• It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.
• Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
• It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

Martin Luther Quotes About Faith

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

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone. — Martin Luther

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love]. — Martin Luther

The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word' in faith and love, and not the 'mere hearers,' who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness. — Martin Luther

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow. — Martin Luther

When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ. — Martin Luther

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. — Martin Luther

Faith is the yes of the heart. — Martin Luther

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. — Martin Luther

Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in disguise. — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Quotes About Bible

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. — Martin Luther

For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant. — Martin Luther

My conscience is captive to the Word of God — Martin Luther

Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child. — Martin Luther

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it. — Martin Luther

I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work! — Martin Luther

[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended. — Martin Luther

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience. — Martin Luther

He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors. — Martin Luther

In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well. — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Quotes About Love

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. — Martin Luther

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. — Martin Luther

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren. — Martin Luther

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us. — Martin Luther

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. — Martin Luther

The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God. — Martin Luther

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object. — Martin Luther

Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you" — Martin Luther

Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long. — Martin Luther

Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown. — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Quotes About Prayer

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

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God. — Martin Luther

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

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. — Martin Luther

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful. — Martin Luther

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience. — Martin Luther

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer. — Martin Luther

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray. — Martin Luther

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes. — Martin Luther

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor. — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Quotes About Music

As long as we live there is never enough singing. — Martin Luther

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

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. — Martin Luther

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. — Martin Luther

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music. — Martin Luther

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. — Martin Luther

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away. — Martin Luther

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools. — Martin Luther

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. — Martin Luther

The devil doesn't stay where there is music. — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Quotes About Grace

Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen — Martin Luther

Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes! — Martin Luther

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident. — Martin Luther

Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge. — Martin Luther

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry. — Martin Luther

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent. — Martin Luther

This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours. — Martin Luther

Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace. — Martin Luther

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing. — Martin Luther

Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us. — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Quotes About Indulgences

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money. — Martin Luther

Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles... We are beggars: this is true. — Martin Luther

For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite. — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Quotes About Marriage

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. — Martin Luther

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles. — Martin Luther

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. — Martin Luther

The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing. — Martin Luther

To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel. — Martin Luther

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church. — Martin Luther

Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension. — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Quotes About Reformation

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

If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving. — Martin Luther

But then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them! — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Quotes About Heart

People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time. — Martin Luther

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. — Martin Luther

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

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart. — Martin Luther

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious. — Martin Luther

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. — Martin Luther

The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart — Martin Luther

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee. — Martin Luther

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns. — Martin Luther

Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts. Open your heart, Untie the ribbons, and enjoy the contents! Were earth a thousand times as fair Beset with gold and jewels rare She yet were far too poor to be A narrow cradle, Lord, for Thee. — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Quotes About People

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. — Martin Luther

People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy — Martin Luther

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths. — Martin Luther

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful. — Martin Luther

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. — Martin Luther

People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. — Martin Luther

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people. — Martin Luther

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. — Martin Luther

No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity. — Martin Luther

Christians are rare people on earth. — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Quotes About Life

In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah! — Martin Luther

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance. — Martin Luther

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself. — Martin Luther

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you. — Martin Luther

Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk. — Martin Luther

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. — Martin Luther

The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God. — Martin Luther

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life. — Martin Luther

To pray well is the better half of study. — Martin Luther

Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long. — Martin Luther

Martin Luther Famous Quotes And Sayings

There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor. — Martin Luther

As long as we live there is never enough singing. — Martin Luther

A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass. — Martin Luther

The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character. — Martin Luther

May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins. — Martin Luther

Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god. — Martin Luther

The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God. — Martin Luther

Peace if possible, truth at all costs. — Martin Luther

We must make a great difference between God's Word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth, yea, greater than death and hell, for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly. — Martin Luther

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

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

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

God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of Another -- God alone. — Martin Luther

Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race. — Martin Luther

Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious. — Martin Luther

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds. — Martin Luther

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. — Martin Luther

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. — Martin Luther

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor. — Martin Luther

I'll trust in God's unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever. — Martin Luther

Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better. — Martin Luther

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

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. — Martin Luther

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. — Martin Luther

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen. — Martin Luther

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. — Martin Luther

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

Nothing good ever comes of violence. — Martin Luther

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. — Martin Luther

If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'. — Martin Luther

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason. — Martin Luther

If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need. — Martin Luther

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter. — Martin Luther

A man cannot do good before he is made good. — Martin Luther

We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went, they made a triumphant witness for Christ. Whether on the village streets or in the city jails, they daringly proclaimed the good news of the gospel. — Martin Luther

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes. — Martin Luther

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross? — Martin Luther

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more. — Martin Luther

Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes. — Martin Luther

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively. — Martin Luther

The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal. — Martin Luther

How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God. — Martin Luther

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want. — Martin Luther

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted. — Martin Luther

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong. — Martin Luther

Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them. — Martin Luther

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses? — Martin Luther

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. — Martin Luther

Drive them [Jews] like mad dogs from our land... let not one of them live. — Martin Luther

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist. — Martin Luther

Each betrayal begins with trust. — Martin Luther

God may delay, but He always comes. — Martin Luther

Every evening brings us nearer God. — Martin Luther

Life Lessons by Martin Luther

1. Martin Luther taught that everyone should be able to read the Bible for themselves and make their own decisions about their faith. This encourages us to think independently and make our own choices in life.
2. Martin Luther also believed that everyone should be able to access education and learn from it. This teaches us to value knowledge and strive for self-improvement.
3. He also believed in the importance of speaking up for what you believe in and standing up for justice. This teaches us to be brave and stand up for our beliefs, even when it is difficult.