Martin Luther Quotes about Teaching

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The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor

The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

Martin Luther

Christian, Children, Teaching

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Martin Luther

Teacher, Teaching, Importance

A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

Martin Luther

Teaching, Should Have, Skills

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

Martin Luther

Teaching, Doe, May

"Luther's Works, Volume 39: Church and Ministry I" by by Helmut T. Lehman, edited by Eric W. Gritsch, Augsburg Fortress Press, (p. 249), 1986.

Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.

Martin Luther

Children, Teaching, Earth

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.

Martin Luther

Book, Teaching, Writing

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