Martin Luther

"There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day."

"Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper."

"Everything that is done in this world is done by hope."

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."

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

"Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying."

"When I am angry I can pray well and preach well."

"I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men."

"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."

"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

"Reason is the enemy of faith."

"If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself."

"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."

"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."

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

"Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?"

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

"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."

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

"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."