Quotes About Luther

Our writer Ben Wallace-Wells visited Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, to which Obama belonged. It was led by Reverend Jeremiah Wright. It wasn't Martin Luther King Jr. preaching; it was Malcolm X.

The car had been returned to the impoundment lot where Luther had "borrowed" it earlier that night. The plate would get them nowhere

Fuller, the seventeenth-century writer, wrote of Wyclif's preachers, "These men were sentinels against an army of enemies until God sent Luther to relieve them." In Oxford Wyclifite tradition lingered in Bible study until the Reformation.

When we do not trust him wholeheartedly, we defraud God of his honor.[107] While Luther sees self-righteousness as a cause of doubt, Calvin sees it as a defrauding of God. When men trust their own zeal, wisdom, and toil, they usurp God's exclusive right to glory for the well being of his people.

According to Article XIV of the Augustana, it matters greatly who exercises the preaching office, namely, whether the person in question is legitimately called (rite vocatus) according to correct ecclesiastical order. Luther also knew that the call (vocatio) causes the devil a great deal of woe.

I remember Luther Vandross had turned me on to Versace in 1990. I remember a girl ironing the jeans for me and she was, like, 'What the hell are these? What's Vercayce?'

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

From a psychological perspective, no Christian construct in Luther's time was as specifically therapeutic for obsessions and compulsions as that which he discovered. Only sola fide was able to completely relieve the agonizing sense of accountability that Luther felt for his salvation. It accomplished this by transferring responsibility to God.

The BP settlement is a victory for Alabama: not only for the amount of compensation we were able to secure, but also for avoiding many more years of litigation.

[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.

I've been watching 'Luther' since the beginning. My family adore it, too, so it was like a passion project for me.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it."

"The Psalms of David have supplied the Christian church with its best psalmody for nearly three thousand years," continued I. "They constitute the reservoir from which Luther, and Watts, and Wesley, and Doddridge, and a host of other singers have drawn their inspiration, and in which myriads untold have found the expression of their highest and holiest experiences, myriads who never heard of Homer. They are surely as well worth studying as his noble epics."

Unlike other reformers, Luther rarely claimed divine inspiration for his ideas. It is interesting too that he uses the word Kunst—art—for it suggests that the insight, like the skill of a craftsman or artist, opened up a whole new ability to accomplish things in a different way.

The Gotha sermon takes us closer than any other testimony to the religious despair and overwhelming sinfulness that Luther felt as a monk. And it was at this point that he had begun to study Paul's Letter to the Romans, an intellectual and devotional exercise that would transform his spirituality.

Luther argued that the Jews were a people who had been punished by God for 1,500 years, since the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, because they did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.

Luther's views were not a medieval relic but a development of it. Even more disturbing, it was not incidental to his theology, a lamentable prejudice taken over from contemporary attitudes. Rather, it was integral to his thought; his insistence that the true Christians—that is, the evangelicals—had become the chosen people and had displaced the Jews would become fundamental to Protestant identity.

Luther claims. Having lost their status as the chosen people and therefore no longer truly "Jews," the Jews are "even changed into another people altogether, with nothing [of the original] left but a lazy remnant" of foreign rascals or gypsies

Leo's profligacy as patron and builder, which kept him perpetually strapped for cash, lay behind his authorization of the sale of indulgences in Germany, against which Luther's Ninety-Five Theses was such a forceful protest.

Zwingli removed the organ from his church in Zurich because he could not find in Scripture a text mandating the use of the organ in Christian worship, while Luther promoted all kinds of musical instruments in church because he saw no scriptural rule against them; plus, he felt that music offered an effective means for conveying the message of the gospel.

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.

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

Philosophy is the Devil's Whore

Rome], who was formerly the gate of heaven, is now a sort of open mouth of hell.