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 comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.
When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.
We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy
We are at fault for not slaying them (the Jews)
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
Over and above that we let them get rich on our sweat and blood, while we remain poor and they suck the marrow from our bones
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Pray, and let God worry.
The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.
Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.