Martin Luther (1483–1546) was a German theologian, religious reformer, and one of the most influential figures in Christian history. After calling into question some of the basic tenets of Roman Catholicism, Luther began the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. His followers soon split from the Roman Catholic Church to begin the Protestant tradition. This resulted in the division of Western Christendom between Roman Catholicism and the new Protestant traditions, mainly Lutheranism, Calvinism, the Anglican Communion, the Anabaptists, and the Antitrinitarians.
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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
—Martin Luther
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
—Martin Luther
Topics: Belief, Faith
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.
—Martin Luther
I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of Gods word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now. Nobody is to blame for this except the pope, the bishops, and the prelates, who are all charged with training young people. The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that? 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
If you could understand a single grain of wheat, you would die of wonder.
—Martin Luther
There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
—Martin Luther
Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul…
—Martin Luther
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
—Martin Luther
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
—Martin Luther
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
—Martin Luther
Topics: Marriage, Society
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
—Martin Luther
Everything that is done in the world is done by the hopeful. No matter your age. No matter your circumstances. No matter your financial wealth. Without hope, nothing is possible. But with hope…well…watch out.
—Martin Luther
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