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 are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.
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.
Unity has never meant uniformity.
We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.
We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.
The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.
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.