Quotes by Martin Luther

About Martin Luther:

Martin Luther was a German friar, priest and professor of theology who was a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Initially an Augustinian friar, Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar, with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the Pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Emperor.
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I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Martin Luther

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

Martin Luther

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Martin Luther

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Martin Luther

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

Martin Luther

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Martin Luther

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Martin Luther

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Martin Luther

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Martin Luther

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Martin Luther

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

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Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

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Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

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This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is g...

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The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

Martin Luther

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do no...

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Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior.

Martin Luther

There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of the sky, the sun, the moon, just as if somebody were moving in a carriage or ship might hold that he was sitting still and at r...

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There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Martin Luther

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Martin Luther

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Martin Luther

Author Bio

  • NameMartin Luther
  • DescriptionGerman monk, priest, and professor of theology, seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
  • AliasesLuther
  • BornNovember 10, 1483
  • DiedFebruary 18, 1546
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionLinguist; Translator; Theologian; Writer