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Martin Luther Quotes - Page 37

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Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

Religious, Humor, Animal

A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.

Book, Teaching, Writing

John Calvin, Martin Luther (1991). “Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

May, Follow Me, Preaching

Martin Luther (2012). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.4, Courier Corporation

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Perfection, Celibacy, Creation

Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.

Evil, Wish, Church

"Dictata super Psalterium (Dictations on the Psalter)" in "D. Martin Luthers Werke: kritische Gesamtausgabe" by Herman Bohlau Weimar, Volume 3, (p. 445), 1883.

The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

Mad, Doe, Different

"Whether Soldiers Can Also Be in a State of Grace". Book by Martin Luther, 1526.

Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.

Angel, Office, Would Be

Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.246

What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

Blow, Taught, Behinds

"The Great Catechism". Book by Martin Luther, Second Command, 1529.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

Religious, Humor, Devil

God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing.

Dust, Devil, Ashes

Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.48

If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.

Land, People, Jerusalem

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

Adversity, Men, Suffering

Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.270

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

Law, Leaving, Undone

Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.27, Lulu.com

For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.

Character, Devil, Goes On

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

Night, Men, Giving

It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

Order, People, Church

"Luther". Book by Hartmann Grisar, vol. 4, p. 126, 1915.

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

Strong, Blood, Temptation

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

War, Tyrants, Wicked

women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

Girl, Checks, Behinds

"To His Housewife" (An Seine Hausfrau), end of July 1545 in "Dr. Martin Luthers Briefe, sendschreiben und bedenken: vollständig aus den verschiedenen ausgaben seiner werke und briefe, aus andern büchern und noch unbenutzen handschriften gesammelt" by Martin Luther, Volume 5, p. 753, (No. MMCCLXXXVI), 1828.

Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

Christian, Sweet, Harmony

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

Christian, Religious, Humor

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

Christian, Spiritual, Sacrifice

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

Religious, Humor, Stoves

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Education, Son, Giving

Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Justice, Lasts, Ends

"On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

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