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
True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity
My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.
Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.
If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.
Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.
Even though they grow weary and wear themselves out with child- bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for
Everything done in the world is done by hope.
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.
I maintain that some Jew wrote it (the Book of James) who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any
Whenever I happen to be prevented by the press of duties from observing my hour of prayer, the entire day is bad for me