Martin Luther Quotes

Almost every night when I wake up the devil is there and wants to dispute with me. I have come to this conclusion: When the argument that the Christian is without the law and above the law doesn’t help, I instantly chase him away with a fart.

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.

In this sort of temptation and struggle, contempt is the best and easiest method of winning over the devil. Laugh your adversary to scorn and ask who it is with whom you are talking. But by all means flee solitude, for the devil watches and lies in wait for you most of all when you […]

I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.

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

The Devil… clutched hold of the miserable young man… and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of (him).

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

A certain wicked priest, when he was chanting the evening prayers on Christmas Eve, said “We have to do all this singing although Mary had only one child. What would it be like if she had had more? We’d have to scream ourselves to death!”

Do as your children do. They go to bed at night and sleep without worries. They don’t care whence they will get soup or bread tomorrow; they know that Father and Mother will take care of it.