Martin Luther

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

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

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

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.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

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

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 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.

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

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

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

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.

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.