Children Quotes by Martin Luther

“In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.”

— Martin Luther

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

— Martin Luther

Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.

— Martin Luther

“How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.”

— Martin Luther

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

— Martin Luther

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

— Martin Luther

It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.

— Martin Luther

Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.

— Martin Luther

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when…

— Martin Luther

I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the…

— Martin Luther

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

— Martin Luther

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

— Martin Luther

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of…

— Martin Luther

Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any…

— Martin Luther

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

Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any,…

— Martin Luther

Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have…

— Martin Luther

Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam…

— Martin Luther

I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy…

— Martin Luther

The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but…

— Martin Luther

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us… More over, when we have repented, He instantly…

— Martin Luther

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

Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of…

— Martin Luther

I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly…

— Martin Luther

Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou…

— Martin Luther

On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.…

— Martin Luther

“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

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support…

— Martin Luther

Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school.…

— Martin Luther

“Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the…

— Martin Luther

“As long, therefore, as I am surrounded by danger and the uncertainty of death, so long must I believe in Christ, my…

— Martin Luther

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

“What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief…

— Martin Luther

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for…

— Martin Luther

Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given,…

— Martin Luther

You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down,…

— Martin Luther

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God.…

— Martin Luther

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks…

— Martin Luther

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient,…

— Martin Luther

It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that by its soundness…

— Martin Luther