Quotes About Martin Luther

The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife.

He must be a man of some force.' 'He's a religious fanatic.' Leo suddenly smiled. 'So were Martin Luther and Oliver Cromwell and John the Baptist, Viscountess. Give me a good religious fanatic every time! They always mean business, and they'll do what they set out to do or die trying.

Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.

In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, setting off an upheaval that eventually split Christendom in two. Luther accused religious officials of being more concerned with money and power than saving souls, and challenged the Church to reform itself.

As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?

If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

I drive two black cars, I named em Malcolm X and Martin Luther.

[Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word with its inherent divine power, a gracious water of life, a washing of regeneration. Through this divine efficacy of the Word the sacrament effects regeneration.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Martin Luther wrote, "If women become tired, or even die, it does not matter. Let them die in childbirth. That's what they are there for.

Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.

Despite rampant Protestant pluralism, it is still possible to identify general beliefs and practices that have marked most Protestants in most places at most times. Historically considered, Protestantism is an all-inclusive term for religious movements descended directly or indirectly from the 16th-century Reformation in which Martin Luther and John Calvin played leading roles.

Martin Luther. And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us; We will not fear, for God has willed His truth to triumph through us.

If God's justice could be recognized as just by human comprehension, it would not be divine. MARTIN LUTHER All

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake

The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy.

Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but—more frequently than not—struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

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

If it were an art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

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.

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