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Letter "M" » Martin Luther Quotes
«Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
basilica, cajole, cajoled, Christians, indulgences, peter, peter out, pope, St Peter, the pope
«Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Devil,
Men
| Keywords:
blockheads, devils, idiots, infirmities, lame, natural causes, physicians, proceeded, The Blind, The Devils
«In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
lake, lucerne, not far, Pilate, pond, ponds, residence, residences, Switzerland, the pond
«Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.»
«We have decided to follow the example of the prophets and the fathers of the church and write German hymns for the German people»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
decided, fathers, Fathers of the Church, German, hymn, hymns, Prophets, The Church, The Prophets
«If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Judaism
| Keywords:
articles, Articles of, article of faith, inventing, obliged, refute, refutes, refuting, Two thousand
«The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Fashion,
Mankind
| Keywords:
advised, clay, consulted, fashioning, marvel, marveling, reproduction, reproductions, the matter
«There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
fancies, ghost, Holy Ghost, prophet, rude, rustic, The Whisper, whisper
«The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Devil
| Keywords:
carry away, imp, imps, infrequent, steals, steal away
«All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Betrayal,
Experience,
History,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
betrayed, relies
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