Martin Luther was a German professor of theology, priest, author, composer, Augustinian monk. He was also a seminal figure in the Reformation. Here we have shared Martin Luther quotes on love, faith, power, music, prayer, education, reformation, grace, salvation, inspiration, and motivation.
Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483, in Eisleben, Germany, and died on February 18, 1546, in Eisleben, Germany. His wife’s name is Katharina von Bora.
Martin Luther quotes
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” – Martin Luther
“The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.” – Martin Luther
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther
“I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.” – Martin Luther
“We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.” – Martin Luther
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ” – Martin Luther
“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education, and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.” – Martin Luther
“If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused, and scorned tho’ we may be, our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny.” – Martin Luther
“I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.” – Martin Luther
“There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.” – Martin Luther
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” – Martin Luther
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther
“No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” – Martin Luther
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther
“When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ” – Martin Luther
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” – Martin Luther
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“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” – Martin Luther
“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.” – Martin Luther
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” – Martin Luther
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.” – Martin Luther
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” – Martin Luther
“The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows” – Martin Luther
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther
“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther
“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. ” – Martin Luther
“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.” – Martin Luther
“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life, is what is important.” – Martin Luther
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther
“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.” – Martin Luther
“Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not a man.” – Martin Luther
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” – Martin Luther
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” – Martin Luther
“Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.” – Martin Luther
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” – Martin Luther
“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.” – Martin Luther
“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.” – Martin Luther
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.” – Martin Luther
“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service… You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.” – Martin Luther
“Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.” – Martin Luther
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” – Martin Luther
“A riot is the language of the unheard.” – Martin Luther
“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” – Martin Luther
“The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.” – Martin Luther
“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” – Martin Luther
“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.” – Martin Luther
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.” – Martin Luther
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther
“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” – Martin Luther
“You will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile, laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you.” – Martin Luther
“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.” – Martin Luther
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther
“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.” – Martin Luther
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” – Martin Luther
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” – Martin Luther
“The principle of self-defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.” – Martin Luther
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Martin Luther
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” – Martin Luther
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” – Martin Luther
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Martin Luther
“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is, in reality, expressing the highest respect for the law.” – Martin Luther
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.” – Martin Luther
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?” – Martin Luther
“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as ‘right-to-work.’ It provides no ‘rights’ and no ‘works.’ Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining… We demand this fraud be stopped.” – Martin Luther
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.” – Martin Luther
“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” – Martin Luther
“We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.” – Martin Luther
“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood.” – Martin Luther
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” – Martin Luther
“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. ” – Martin Luther
“What is wrong in the world today is that the nations of the world are engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy.” – Martin Luther
“The evidence of Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I have a dream” declaration was a passionate confirmation of how a dream meant for liberation, success and fulfilled life can become true.” – Martin Luther
“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.” – Martin Luther
“If you can’t fly then run if you can’t run then walk if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” – Martin Luther
“We cannot walk alone.” – Martin Luther
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King Jr. – Martin Luther
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther
“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.” – Martin Luther
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” – Martin Luther
“Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” – Martin Luther
“If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God’s will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.” – Martin Luther
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” – Martin Luther
“That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.” – Martin Luther
“The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.” – Martin Luther
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” – Martin Luther
“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.” – Martin Luther
“Nonviolence is an absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not an emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one’s whole being into the being of another.” – Martin Luther
“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” – Martin Luther
“Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” – Martin Luther
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.” – Martin Luther
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.” – Martin Luther
“I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.” – Martin Luther
“In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.” – Martin Luther
“I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” – Martin Luther
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle.” – Martin Luther
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” – Martin Luther
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” – Martin Luther
“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.” – Martin Luther
“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’ – Martin Luther
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.” – Martin Luther
“Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.” – Martin Luther
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