Happy Reformation Day!

On October 31, 1517, an Augustinian monk posted his critique of Catholicism on the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany and helped bring about one of the most important events in church history. To commemorate the Protestant Reformation, I have gathered a list of quotes by my favorite reformer, Martin Luther. Happy Reformation Day.


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.

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

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

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

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.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

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

Pray, and let God worry.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

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

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Tomorrow I plan to work, work, from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

for His glory,
DJ