German friar, priest and professor of theology (1483-1546)
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 of clay, in the way Adam was fashioned.
MARTIN LUTHER
Table Talk
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.
MARTIN LUTHER
Deutsche Antwort Luthers auf König Heinrichs von England Buch
We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.
MARTIN LUTHER
"Of God's Word", Table Talk
Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.
MARTIN LUTHER
sermon for the Second Sunday in Advent, Sermons of Martin Luther: Church Postils
Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.
MARTIN LUTHER
Luther's Works
I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.
MARTIN LUTHER
"Of God's Word", Table Talk
It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.
MARTIN LUTHER
Sermon XI, A Selection of the Most Celebrated Sermons of M. Luther and J. Calvin
My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.
MARTIN LUTHER
"Of God's Word", Table Talk
I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.
MARTIN LUTHER
To the Christian Nobility of the German States
Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?
MARTIN LUTHER
"Of God's Word", Table Talk
Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.
MARTIN LUTHER
attributed, History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century