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
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.
Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.
Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.
I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.
Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.
They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
It is God who creates effects and preserves all things through God's almighty power.
A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.