Martin Luther

“Pray, and let God worry.”

“Nothing good ever comes of violence.”

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

“When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.”

“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.”

“Forgiveness is God's command.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”

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

“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.”

“I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.”

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

“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.”

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

“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.”

“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”

“Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.”

“Reason is the enemy of faith.”