Luther Quotes

Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him.

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

Id love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

Jesus-murdered. Martin Luther King-murdered. Gandhi-murdered. Malcolm X-murdered. Reagan-wounded.

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service? Luther at least would turn over in his grave.

I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.

For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"