“How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“For the kingdom is not being prepared, but has been prepared, while the sons of the Kingdom are being prepared, not preparing… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“As long, therefore, as I am surrounded by danger and the uncertainty of death, so long must I believe in Christ, my… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“A woman must be a woman and cannot be a man. She, too, is God's creature and her divine station is that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Our faith in Christ does not free us from works but from false opinions concerning works, that is, from the foolish presumption that justification is acquired by works. Faith redeems, corrects, and preserves our consciences so that we know that righteousness does not consist in works, although works neither can nor ought to be wanting; just as we cannot be… — Martin Luther Copy Share
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Romans 3:28” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
![“On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) [This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned…” quote by Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/58b/martin-luther-106_adoration_on-coming-to-the-house-they-the-magi-saw_1061270.jpg)
