Monk Quotes

List of top sayings and quotations by famous monks like Martin Luther, Buddha and Matthieu Ricard


  • You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

    — Buddha
    965
  • 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
    426
  • Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

    — Martin Luther
    378
  • Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

    — Buddha
    362
  • 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
    341
  • 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

    — Martin Luther
    326
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    Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

    — Buddha
    105
  • God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

    — Martin Luther
    322
  • 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
    308
  • I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

    — Buddha
    303
  • God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

    — Martin Luther
    263
  • All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

    — Buddha
    262
  • A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

    — Martin Luther
    259
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    Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.

    — Buddha
    76
  • Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

    — Buddha
    246
  • Your worst enemies won't harm you as much your own unguarded thoughts.

    — Buddha
    241
  • 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
    237
  • 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
    233
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  • A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it

    — Martin Luther
    231
  • Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

    — Buddha
    230
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    Be where you are, otherwise you will miss your life.

    — Buddha
    59
  • Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

    — Buddha
    228
  • The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

    — Martin Luther
    227
  • The whole being of any Christian is faith and love.

    Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

    — Martin Luther
    215
  • We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

    — Martin Luther
    213
  • 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
    213
  • Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

    — Martin Luther
    212
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    The six best doctors: Sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.

    — Buddha
    50
  • Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.

    — Buddha
    211
  • When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.

    — Martin Luther
    201
  • As long as we live there is never enough singing.

    — Martin Luther
    183
  • A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

    — Martin Luther
    182
  • Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

    — Martin Luther
    179
  • Fools wait for a lucky day but every day is a lucky day for an industrious man.

    — Buddha
    177
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    Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

    — Buddha
    49
  • Pray, and let God worry.

    — Martin Luther
    176
  • 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
    175
  • Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

    — Martin Luther
    173
  • To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

    — Martin Luther
    167
  • If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.

    — Shantideva
    166
  • There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

    — Martin Luther
    157
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    The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

    — Buddha
    47
  • 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
    153
  • Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

    — Buddha
    153
  • Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.

    — Martin Luther
    151
  • 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
    151
  • Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed.

    Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy about something if you can change it? And if you can't, how will being unhappy help?

    — Shantideva
    151
  • Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

    — Buddha
    149
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    Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

    — Buddha
    46
  • Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

    — Martin Luther
    142
  • Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

    — Buddha
    139
  • 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
    131
  • 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
    130
  • 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
    130
  • 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
    129
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    No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

    — Buddha
    45
  • 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
    129
  • Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

    — Buddha
    129
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