Inspirational Quotes by Martin Luther
“Porque las ofensas deben inferirse de una sola vez para que, durando menos, hieran menos; mientras que los beneficios deben proporcionarse poco a poco, a fin de que se saboreen mejor.”
“To conclude then: fortune varies but men go on regardless. When their approach suits the times they’re successful, and when it doesn’t they’re not. My opinion on the matter is this: it’s better to be impulsive than cautious; fortune is female and if you want to stay on top of her you have to slap and thrust. You’ll see she’s more likely to yield that way than to men who go about her coldly. And being a woman she likes her men young, because they’re not so cagey, they’re wilder and more daring when they master her.”
“war is not to be avoided, but is only to be put off to the advantage of others;”
“The prince who holds a country differing in the above respects ought to make himself the head and defender of his less powerful neighbours, and to weaken the more powerful amongst them, taking care that no foreigner as powerful as himself shall, by any accident, get a footing there. And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred which they feel against the ruling power.”
“you must know that there are two modes of fighting: one in accordance with the laws, the other with force. The first is proper to man, the second to beasts. But because the first, in many cases, is not sufficient, it becomes necessary to have recourse to the second: therefore, a prince must know how to make good use of the natures of both the beast and the man.”
“Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be--and are ruined.”
topics: man
“There cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.”
“for it happens in this, as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure.”
“For a worldly man and compulsive womanizer, used to being at the frenetic heart of public life,”
“for even whilst you exercise it you lose the power to do so, and so become either poor or despised, or else, in avoiding poverty, rapacious and hated.”
“Մարդիկ գրեթե միշտ քայլում են այլոց տրորած ճանապարհներով և փորձում են ընդօրինակել նրանց գործողությունները, սակայն, քանի որ հնարավոր չէ ոչ լիովին հետևել ուրիշի անցած ուղուն, ոչ էլ հասնել մեկ ուրիշի բարձունքներին, խելամիտ մարդը պետք է միշտ հետևի մեծ մարդկանց անցած ճանապարհին և նմանվի նրանց, ովքեր գերունակ են...”
topics: Նիկոլո-Մաքիավելի-Տիրակալը
“Above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.”
“You must know there are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is frequently not sufficient, it is necessary to have recourse to the second.”
“Վերջին հաշվով, այլոց զենք ու զրահը կամ ուսերիցդ վայր է ընկնում, կամ ծանր բեռ է դառնում քեզ համար, կամ էլ չափից ավելի նեղ է գալիս...”
topics: Նիկոլո-Մաքիավելի-Տիրակալը
“therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.”
“...if one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them.”
topics: leadership
“Nevertheless, not to extinguish our free will, I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less.”
“سه گونه مغز در کار است: یکی آنکه به خود درمییابد؛ دیگر آنکه آنچه را که دیگران دریافتهاند درمییابد؛ سوم آنکه نه به خود درمییابد نه به دیگران. نخستین، عالیست و دومین خوب و سومین بیهوده.”
topics: politics
“Մարդիկ ավելի համարձակորեն խոցում են նրան, ում սիրում են, քան նրան ումից վախենում են, քանզի սիրո հիմքում ընկած է երախտապարտությունը, որը, մարդկանց նենգության պատճառով, անհետանում է ամեն առիթով, երբ հակասում է սեփական շահին, մինչ վախի հիմքում պատժելու սպառռնալին է, որից հնարավոր չէ ազատվել…”
topics: Նիկոլո-մաքիավելի-տիրակալը
“مردم همواره با تو ناراستاند، مگر آنکه ناگزیر از راستی باشند.”
topics: politics
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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.