Lutheran Quotes

15 quotes from 14 authors

If you’ve ever wondered how Lutheran life feels beyond the pews, these snippets reveal its legal customs, theological boldness, and everyday rhythm. From statutes that once mandated weekly communion to a theologian’s blunt confession, the voices blend solemn ritual with quiet humor. Fans of this view often turn to the Protestant Reformation and Christian worship pages for more.

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I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.

Johannes Kepler

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“Nietzsche- a weak but strongly mustachioed, Lutheran Pastor's son.”

N.D. Wilson

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“Laws requiring a certain frequency of church attendance, the taking of Communion, and baptism of infants soon appeared all across the Lutheran…

Rodney Stark

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I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother…

Garrison Keillor

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“Lutheran spirituality begins with the insight that all human effort to reach God is futile. The will, to use Luther’s term, is…

Gene Edward Veith Jr

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My grandfather was the minister at the Lutheran church. My dad owned a car dealership in town. My mom was the consummate…

Gretchen Carlson

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“If Lutheranism is to be Lutheran, we must recapture our comfort level with the catholic shape of our identity and this means…

Anonymous

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My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don't think so. I still think of…

Kristen Schaal

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“The Pelagianizing Romanist says, Lust, or concupiscence, brings forth sin, therefore it cannot be sin, because the mother cannot be the child.…

Charles Porterfield Krauth

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“The Kingdom of God is a tricky concept, and I was always taught it referred to our heavenly reward for being good,…

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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“A Lutheran church in Nebraska is typically a place where any mad passion for Christ is politely concealed. Men and women recite…

Timothy Schaffert

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“God once spoke through the mouth of an ass. I will tell you straight what I think. I am a Christian theologian…

Martin Luther

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“Since in fact liturgical traditions, vestments, church vessels, etc., were immediately removed wherever Calvinism infiltrated or Reformed ideas even gained influence in…

Ernst Walter Zeeden

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“In our Lutheran Church, with her deep, significant and inspiring doctrine of this holy Sacrament, with her solemn and searching preparatory service,…

G.H. Gerberding

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“It is the distinctive position of the Reformation with which, over against Rome, it stands or falls, that that which properly constitutes,…

Charles Porterfield Krauth

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