1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.
Martin Luther – [Servants]
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther – [Prayer]
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
Martin Luther – [Angels]
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
Martin Luther – [Equality]
Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.
Martin Luther – [Rebellion]
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther – [Faith]
Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
Martin Luther – [Weapons]
Christian life consists of faith and charity.
Martin Luther – [Christians and Christianity]
Christians are rare people on earth.
Martin Luther – [Christians and Christianity]
Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
Martin Luther – [Pope]
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther – [Belief]
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin Luther – [Death and Dying]
Everything done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther – [World]
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin Luther – [Faith]
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Martin Luther – [Faith]
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.
Martin Luther – [Bible]
Forgiveness is God's command.
Martin Luther – [Forgiveness]
Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!
Martin Luther – [Courage]
How soon not now, becomes never.
Martin Luther – [Procrastination]
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 – [Education]