Quotes About Martin Luther

If you share my frustration with the disparity between the church as Scripture talks about her and what we see reflected in our religious institutions, you're not alone. You're standing in a long line that includes the likes of Francis of Assisi, John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, John Wesley, and nameless others who dared to ask the difficult questions and struggled with the uncomfortable answers.

For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity.

Martin Luther said, "The Christian is supposed to love his neighbor, and since his wife is his nearest neighbor, she should be his deepest love.

Martin Luther would be the headliner of any 'dead-or-alive dinner party' I would ever throw. He is, quite simply, one of the most fascinating brains and compelling personalities in history.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.

How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian.

To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him.

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?

He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.

Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.

Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Protestants are Christians whose religion derives ultimately from Martin Luther's rebellion against the Catholic Church. They are a tree with many tangled branches but a single trunk.

Martin Luther was the Reformation's indispensable firestarter. Would there have been a Reformation if young Martin had followed his father's wishes and become a lawyer? Who knows, but the Reformation as it actually happened is unimaginable without him.

The Reformation became notorious for two fat men. The first, Martin Luther, we have already met. The second, King Henry VIII of England.

Martin Luther was a friar as well as a professor. When a man in his position accused the church of moneygrubbing, people were ready to listen.

Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!