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
There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.
No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.
Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.
The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.
You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.
Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'
The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.
I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.
The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.
The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.
We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.
As long as we live there is never enough singing.