Quote by Martin Luther
“Quiero dejar mejor demostrada la ineficacia de estos ejércitos. Los capitanes mercenarios o son hombres de mérito o no lo son; no se puede confiar en ellos si lo son porque aspirarán siempre a forjar su propia grandeza, ya tratando de someter al príncipe su señor, ya tratando de oprimir a otros al margen de los designios del príncipe; y mucho menos si no lo son, pues con toda seguridad llevarán al príncipe a la ruina Y a quien objetara que esto podría hacerlo cualquiera, mercenario o no, replicaría con lo siguiente: que un principado o una república deben tener sus milicias propias; que, en un principado. el príncipe debe dirigir las milicias en persona y hacer el oficio de capitán; y en las repúblicas, un ciudadano; y si el ciudadano nombrado no es apto, se lo debe cambiar; y si es capaz para el puesto, sujetarlo por medio de leyes. La experiencia enseña que sólo los príncipes y repúblicas armadas pueden hacer grandes progresos, y que las armas mercenarias sólo acarrean daños. Y es mas difícil que un ciudadano someta a una república que está armada con armas propias que una armada con armas extranjeras.”
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Martin Luther changed the course of Western civilization by initiating the Protestant Reformation. As a priest and theology professor, he confronted indulgence salesmen with his 95 Theses in 1517. Luther strongly disputed their claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms meeting in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor.
Luther taught that salvation is a free gift of God and received only by grace through faith in Jesus as redeemer from sin, not from good works. His theology challenged the authority of the pope of the Roman Catholic Church by teaching that the Bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge and opposed sacerdotalism by considering all baptized Christians to be a holy priesthood.
His translation of the Bible into the language of the people (instead of Latin) made it more accessible, causing a tremendous impact on the church and on German culture. It fostered the development of a standard version of the German language, added several principles to the art of translation, and influenced the translation into English of the King James Bible. His hymns inspired the development of singing in churches. His marriage to Katharina von Bora set a model for the practice of clerical marriage, allowing Protestant priests to marry.