Quotes by Martin Luther

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

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.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

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

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

Pray, and let God worry.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

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.

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.