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
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.
We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.
A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.
To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.
Rioting is not revolutionary.
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values.
We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.
There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.