Martin Luther

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.”

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

“The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.”

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

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

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

“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

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