If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.
Martin LutherYou cannot keep birds from flying over your head
but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair
Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, und Gesang,
Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebenlang
(He who loves not Wine, Women and Song
Remains a fool his whole life long)
Tags: love women humour song wine
What the heathen had in their wood, we have in our opinions.
Martin LutherIt is a doctrine of satan that men are no longer terrified by the law and have replaced it with a gospel of love and grace ONLY!
Martin LutherThere are only two days on my calendar, today and THAT DAY!
Martin LutherGod does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
Martin LutherIf ever a monk got to heaven by his monkery, it was I." "Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.
Martin LutherNow you tell me, when a father goes ahead and washes diapers or performs some other mean task for his child, and someone ridicules him as an effeminate fool, though that father is acting in the spirit just described and in Christian faith, my dear fellow you tell me, which of the two is most keenly ridiculing the other? God, with all his angels and creatures, is smiling, not because that father is washing diapers, but because he is doing so in Christian faith. Those who sneer at him and see only the task but not the faith are ridiculing God with all his creatures, as the biggest fool on earth. Indeed, they are only ridiculing themselves; with all their cleverness they are nothing but devil’s fools.
Martin LutherTags: fatherhood servant-leader
But to be brief. The clearness of the Scripture is twofold; even as the
obscurity is twofold also. The one is external, placed in the ministry of
the word; the other internal, placed in the understanding of the heart. If
you speak of the internal clearness, no man sees one iota in the
Scriptures, but he that hath the Spirit of God. All have a darkened heart;
so that, even if they know how to speak of, and set forth, all things in
the Scripture, yet, they cannot feel them nor know them: nor do they
believe that they are the creatures of God, nor any thing else: according
to that of Psalm xiv, 1. "The fool hath said in his heart, God is nothing."
For the Spirit is required to understand the whole of the Scripture and
every part of it. If you speak of the external clearness, nothing whatever
is left obscure or ambiguous; but all things that are in the Scriptures, are
by the Word brought forth into the clearest light, and proclaimed to the
whole world.
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