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
The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.
God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say
Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer selfglory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.
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.
I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!
God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.
It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
The cross alone is our theology.