Martín Lutero: Frasi in inglese (pagina 4)

“He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.”

“Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.”

“As long as we live there is never enough singing.”

“No great saint lived without errors.”

“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.”

“No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.”

“To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.”

“Pray, and let God worry.”

“Pestis eram vivus… moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague… dying, I shall be your death.”

“You cannot keep birds from flying over your head
but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair”

“The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.”

“Be thou comforted, little dog; thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.”

“The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me."… He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.”

“Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.”

“The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.”

“Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!”

“Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!”

“One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.”

“In his life Christ is an example showing
us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.”