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
He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.
The confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust be right, then is your god also true; and, on the other hand, if your trust be false and wrong, then you have not the true God; for these two belong together faith and God. That now, I say, upon which you set your heart and put your trust is properly your god.
The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.
We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.
True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.
He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world comprehends them not, from ignorance of that mortification which is the gift of God's word.
I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.
The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.
Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.
Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.
Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.
Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.