Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Martin Luther; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Late Medieval Catholic Church. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money, proposing an academic discussion of the practice and efficacy of indulgences in his Ninety-five Theses of 1517. His refusal to renounce all of his...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth10 November 1483
CityEisleben, Germany
CountryGermany
We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.
Rioting is not revolutionary.
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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.
This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.
A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Beer is made by men, wine by God.
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.
Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.
The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.