Martin Luther Quotes

Let us act with humility, cast ourselves at one another’s feet, join hands with each other, and help one another. For here we battle not against pope or emperor, but against the devil, and do you imagine that he is asleep?

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

It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

Accordingly if the devil should say, “Do not drink,” you should reply to him, “On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount.” Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for […]

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

He who does not receive my doctrine cannot be saved.

I do not admit that my doctrine can be judged by anyone.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

What shall we do with… the Jews?… set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.

“It’s true that a good diet is the best medicine when it suits the individual, but to live medically is to live wretchedly.” Then he related some examples of deceased persons who starved themselves to death on the advice of their physicians. “I eat what I like and will die when God wills it.”