Martin Luther Quotes

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

If Switzerland was not the real cradle of the Reformation, she soon became its home, at least for the French and Anglo-Saxon countries.

It's a long way from Martin Luther's 'On the Freedom of a Christian' to 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and a vigorous Protestantism should be able to prevent the former from degenerating into the latter.

We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.

The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.

The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

Here I stand; I can do no other.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow-men.

The Sword and its law have existed from the beginning of the world. The use of force can never prevent heresy.

The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right.

I am not asking to be Governor of Illinois ... I have in my composition that which I have declared to the world as my views upon religion. My position I would not, under any circumstances, not even for my life, seem to renounce. I would rather refuse to be President of the United States than to do so. My religious belief is my own. It belongs to me, not to the State of Illinois. I would not smother one sentiment of my heart to be the Emperor of the round world.

Bible is more reliable than tradition

The Romanists have, with great adroitness, drawn three walls round themselves, with which they have hitherto protected themselves, so that no one could reform them, whereby all Christendom has fallen terribly. Firstly, if pressed by the temporal power, they have affirmed and maintained that the temporal power has no jurisdiction over them, but, on the contrary, that the spiritual power is above the temporal. Secondly, if it were proposed to admonish them with the Scriptures, they objected that no one may interpret the Scriptures but the Pope. Thirdly, if they are threatened with a council, they pretend that no one may call a council but the Pope.

I am an Englishman by birth, a Protestant by religion, and a merchant by occupation. What I have done is not out of contempt to your royal person, God forbid it should, but out of an honest indignation, to see the ridiculous superstitious and gross idolatries practiced here….My own conscience alone. I would not hazard what I have done for any man living, but I owe that and all other services to God

Religion, always a principle of energy, in this new people is in no way worn out or impaired… The people are Protestants, and of that kind which is more adverse to all implicit of mind or opinion. Worship in our Northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance.

Whatever the cause, the Calvinists were the only fighting Protestants. It was they whose faith gave them the courage to stand up for the Reformation, and but for them, the Reformation would have been lost..