Martin Luther

"The Holy Spirit is not given to those who are of timid heart."

"I love the man who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress."

"Let him who wishes peace prepare for war."

"Bad theology always leads to bad ethics."

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."

"The authority of Scripture is higher than the authority of the Pope."

"A man's life may matter but not his memory."

"This one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead."

"God can do much better than our dreams."

"The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of God is the perfection of righteousness."

"The flesh is the greatest teacher of the spiritual."

"Unless I am convicted by the testimony of the Scriptures, I cannot recant."

"If the tyrant takes a city or a field from you, he has not taken your heart."

"The true God is not merely a judge of the intellect, but a lover of souls."

"Man's own word is nothing so sure as God's Word."

"A man cannot enjoy riches and pleasure as much as he can enjoy food when he is hungry."

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above."

"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without a profession or occupation."

"A man may go to heaven without health, riches, or honor; but he cannot go to heaven without Christ."

"The most useful thing to know is how to think rightly about God."

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul."

"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."

"Sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly."

"The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by inserting pious thoughts into his shoes, but by crafting them well."

"How little it takes to make us lose our patience and composure."

"If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."

"A theologian of the cross calls a thing what it is."

"Conscience is a thousand witnesses."

"The greatest prayer is patience."

"We are saved by faith alone, but faith is never alone."