Martin Luther

"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in."

"A Christian's life is not about going to heaven; it is about bringing heaven to earth."

"I could not have heard the things I have heard and seen the things I have seen without being broken inside."

"The greatest and the most important science a man can learn is the knowledge of himself."

"God did not make the righteous; He made sinners."

"Those people who are always making excuses are seldom making progress."

"A wedding is the beginning of married life, but its beginning only."

"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals."

"The reformation was not my work, nor could I have ordered it."

"God is a strange performer. He does not work as we expect."

"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His willingness."

"As the economy of the body is ordered, so I believe the spiritual economy is also ordered."

"Even the most pious theologian is sometimes in doubt."

"No one can understand the Scriptures unless he has the Spirit of God."

"When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said repent, He willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance."

"The true treasure of the church is the gospel, not money or property."

"A Christian must always be ready to take suffering upon himself."

"Marriage is not a matter of sentiment. It is a covenant."

"The most impious belief is the belief that we are righteous."

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief visit, for what purpose he hardly knows."

"I have had the experience of being abandoned by God and I tell you it is terrible."

"The devil is an ass; he thinks himself more cunning than God."

"There are three conversions necessary: the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse."

"A Christian is the servant of all, subject to all."

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice the permanent to the temporary."

"Everything God does, He does from love."

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."

"If we saw clearly the perils of our lives, we should be amazed."

"Good works do not make a man good, but a good man does good works."

"God's mercies are new every morning; great is His faithfulness."