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
As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.
One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.
Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart' (Deut 6.5) that therefore you can love with all your heart? What do arguments of this kind prove, but the 'free-will' does not need the grace of God, but can do all things by its own power....But it does not follow from this that man is converted by his own power, nor do the words say so; they simply say: "if thou wilt turn,telling man what he should do. When he knows it, and sees that he cannot do it, he will ask whence he may find ability to do it..." 164
God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.
Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.
No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.