Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.

Martin Luther

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.

Martin Luther

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.

Martin Luther

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

Martin Luther

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

Martin Luther

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

Martin Luther

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

Martin Luther

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

Martin Luther

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

Martin Luther

So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.

Martin Luther

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

Martin Luther

I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.

Martin Luther

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

Martin Luther

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

Martin Luther

At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.

Martin Luther

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

Martin Luther

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing...

Martin Luther

The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two...

Martin Luther

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps...

Martin Luther

The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing...

Martin Luther

The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

Martin Luther

The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil...

Martin Luther

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

Martin Luther

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

Martin Luther

Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.

Martin Luther

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

Martin Luther

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Martin Luther

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

Martin Luther

We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons...

Martin Luther

Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self­glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.

Martin Luther

Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.

Nick Cave

If you're involved with imagination and the creative process, it's not such a difficult thing to believe in a God. But I'm not involved in any religions, and I've never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Hamas murders not only Israelis, but also Palestinians whose political stance is different from that which its group promotes; that is, its radical religious outlook in which Islam is the solution to the world's problems.