Inspirational Quotes by Martin Luther
“لا يوجد ما يُزعزع البشر، أكثر من ولاياتٍ تدعمُها الشهرة، ولا تدعمُها قواتُها الوطنية”
“فشتان ما بين رجل مسلح، ورجل أعزل، ومهما كان الأمر، لن نرى رجلًا مُسلحًا يُطيع رجلًا أعزلًا، وهو بكامل إرادتِه، ولن نرى أعزلًا سالمًا بين أتباعِهِ المُسلّحين، فمن المُستحيل أن يعمل الاثنان معًا في سلام، لأن إحداهما مُحتَقر، والآخر كثير الشك.”
“إذا نظرّنا للإمور نظرة صحيحة، لوجدنا أن بعض مايبدو فضائل، قد يُهلِكُنا لو طبقناه، والبعض الآخر، الذي يبدو من الرذائل، قد يُسبب سلامة الإنسان، وسعادته أيضًا”
“Nevertheless, it is true that the first discipline encountered by a young man is the one he must somehow identify with unless he chooses to remain unidentified in his years of need. The discipline he happens to encounter, however, may turn out to be poor ideological fare; poor in view of what, as an individual, he has not yet derived from his childhood problems, and poor in view of the irreversible decisions which begin to crowd in on him.”
“1Halleluja! Lobet im Himmel den HERRN; lobet ihn in der Höhe! 2Lobet ihn, alle seine Engel; lobet ihn, all sein Heer! 3Lobet ihn, Sonne und Mond; lobet ihn, alle leuchtenden Sterne! 4Lobet ihn, ihr Himmel allenthalben”
“Current religiosity and ethics, especially those that replace the story of the cross with demands for social reform, have produced many a theology of glory. It still flourishes along with its attendant despair. There is no cure through the law. It will take some dying. So we are already on the way to the cross.”
“God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.”
“Man soll bauen als wollt man ewig leben, und also leben als sollt man morgen sterben. One should build as if one would live forever, and live as though one would die tomorrow.”
“Satan, the god of all dissension stirs up daily new sects. And last of all which of all others I should have foreseen or once suspected. He has raised up a sect such as teach that men should not be terrified by the Law but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.”
“Você não deve agir de acordo com o seu entendimento, mas além dele; se você se atirar na insensatez, eu lhe darei meu entendimento. Não entender é o verdadeiro entender; não saber para onde vai, esse é o verdadeiro saber. Meu entendimento faz que você não entenda. Abraão abandonou a terra natal sem saber para onde ia. Ele se entregou à minha sabedoria, abriu mão de sua própria e, dessa maneira, seguiu o caminho certo, chegando ao caminho verdadeiro. Esse é o caminho da cruz, e você não consegue encontrá-lo sozinho; eu tenho de guiá-lo como se você fosse cego; por isso nem você, nem ser humano algum, nem nenhuma outra criatura, somente eu, eu mesmo, por meio de meu Espírito e de minha Palavra, posso ensinar o caminho a ser trilhado. Não é a obra que você escolher, nem o sofrimento que você preferir, mas é o caminho com que você depara não obstante a sua escolha, seu pensamento e seu desejo - e é aí que eu chamo, é aí que você se torna meu discípulo; é a hora oportuna, o seu Mestre chegou.”
“...The Turk is the rod of the wrath of the Lord our God... ...resisting the Turks, whom he presented as a scourge intentionally sent by God to sinning Christians, and that resisting it would have been equivalent to resisting the will of God...”
“Where shall we find words more adapted to express joy, than what are contained in the Psalms of thanksgiving and of praise? We see here the hearts of saints. Our thoughts are like the flowers of a beautiful and well-cultivated garden, and our gratification consists in a grateful adoration of divine goodness. Again, where do you find more profound expressions of melancholy and of sorrow than are contained in the Psalms of affliction and of mourning? You look, I say, into the very hearts of holy men; you become familiar with death, and the interior of the tomb is opened to you. We see it dead and dark, under a consciousness of the just wrath of God, and we perceive that His countenance is, as it were, turned away from us. In the two great passions of fear and hope, we find them depicted in language which no painter can embody, and which the greatest human actor would ineffectually attempt to transcend.”
“Hasonlóképpen cselekszenek az asztrológusok; amikor egyszer vagy kétszer az igazságra ráhibáznak, nem győznek az ő tudományukkal kérkedni, hencegni, dicsekedni; de mélységesen hallgatnak más esetekről, amikor melléfogtak.”
“I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all; - but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.”
“Because I see that the mobs are always growing, the number of errors are always increasing and Satan's rage and ruin have no end, I wish to confess with this work my faith before God and the whole world, point by point. I am doing this, lest certain people cite me or my writings, while I am alive or after I am dead, to support their errors, as those fanatics, the Sacramentarians and the Anabaptists, have begun to do. I will remain in this confession until my death (God help me!), will depart from this world in it, and appear before the Judgment Seat of our Lord Jesus Christ. So that no one will say after my death, ``If Luther was alive, he would teach and believe this article differently, because he did not think it through sufficiently,'' I state the following, once and for all: I, by God's grace, I have diligently examined these articles in the light of passages throughout the Scriptures. I have worked on them repeatedly and you can be sure that I want to defend them, in the same way that I have just defended the Sacrament of the Altar. No, I'm not drunk or impulsive. I know what I am saying and understand fully what this will mean for me as I stand before the Lord Jesus Christ on the Last Day. No one should think that I am joking or rambling. I'm serious! By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words -- or the words of others?" - Martin Luther”
“Theology is nothing else but grammar engaged with the words of the Holy Spirit.”
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“Wer ein Christ sein will, der steche seiner Vernunft die Augen aus.”
“To be a Christian without praying is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
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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.