Martin Luther Quotes - 6 quotes

Martin Luther was a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. He was a German theologian, priest, and monk whose writings and actions challenged the doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born on November 10, 1483, in Eisleben, Saxony (now in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany). Luther... show more

quote icon “Rage acts as a stimulant to my whole being. It sharpens my wits, puts a stop to the assault of the Devil and drives out care. Never do I write or speak better than when I am in a rage. If I wish to compose, write, pray and preach well, I have to be in a rage.”

- Martin Luther

quote icon “It is impossible to harmonize faith and reason … You must abandon your reason, know nothing of it, annihilate it completely or you will never enter heaven … You must leave reason to itself for it is the born enemy of faith … There is nothing so contrary to faith as law and reason.”

- Martin Luther

quote icon “Reason is the whore of the Devil. It can only blaspheme and dishonour everything God has said or done … throw dung in her face to make her ugly. She is and she ought to be drowned in baptism.”

- Martin Luther

quote icon “Usury, drunkenness, adultery – these crimes are self-evident and the world knows that they are sinful; but that bride of the Devil, ‘Reason,’ stalks abroad, the fair courtesan, and wishes to be considered wise, and thinks that whatever she says comes from the Holy Ghost. She is the most dangerous harlot the Devil has.”

- Martin Luther

quote icon “Reason is the Devil’s greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore; she is a prostitute, the Devil’s appointed whore; whore eaten by scab and leprosy who ought to be trodden under foot and destroyed, she and her wisdom She would deserve, the wretch, to be banished to the filthiest place in the house, to the closets [i.e. toilet] … Usury, drunkenness, adultery – these crimes are self-evident, and the world knows that they are sinful; but that bride of the Devil, ‘Reason,’ stalks abroad, the fair courtesan, and wishes to be considered wise, and thinks that whatever she says comes from the Holy Ghost. She is the most dangerous harlot the Devil has…”

- Martin Luther

quote icon true humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue

- Martin Luther

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