A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them? — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person. — 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
The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give… — 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
As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on… — 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
A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily newsects and last of all, which of all other I should never have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Some pastors are lazy and no good” by Martin Luther “Some pastors and preachers are lazy and no good. They rely on… — 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… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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
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