Humor Quotes by Martin Luther

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

— Martin Luther

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

— Martin Luther

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

— Martin Luther

We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.

— Martin Luther

To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

— Martin Luther

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

— Martin Luther

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

— Martin Luther

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

— Martin Luther

How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with…

— Martin Luther

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

— Martin Luther

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

— Martin Luther

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is…

— Martin Luther

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

— Martin Luther

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

— Martin Luther

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy…

— Martin Luther

The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for…

— 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

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this…

— Martin Luther

At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the…

— Martin Luther

Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other…

— Martin Luther

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be…

— Martin Luther

What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn,…

— Martin Luther

A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in…

— Martin Luther

The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what…

— Martin Luther

The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by…

— Martin Luther

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

— Martin Luther

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them…

— Martin Luther

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.

— Martin Luther

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

— Martin Luther

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil…

— Martin Luther

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.

— Martin Luther

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

— Martin Luther

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

— Martin Luther

We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about…

— Martin Luther

The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard…

— Martin Luther

Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in…

— Martin Luther

So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven…

— Martin Luther

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to…

— Martin Luther

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has…

— 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