Nature Quotes by Martin Luther

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

— Martin Luther

One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.

— Martin Luther

Christians are rare people on earth.

— Martin Luther

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

— Martin Luther

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full…

— Martin Luther

“it is completely contrary to the nature of sin to confess that one has sinned.”

— Martin Luther

“There is nothing more insufferable and poisonous on earth than a barefoot monk.”

— Martin Luther

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

— Martin Luther

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

— Martin Luther

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

— Martin Luther

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to…

— 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

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never…

— Martin Luther

How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender…

— Martin Luther

Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor…

— Martin Luther

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit.…

— Martin Luther

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make…

— Martin Luther

I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth -- the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other…

— Martin Luther

“Begin with Christ. He came down to earth, lived among men, suffered, was crucified, and then He died, standing clearly before us,…

— Martin Luther

“Accordingly, since a good nature and the Holy Spirit were joined, he had to become a distinguished poet, and there is no…

— Martin Luther

We must make a great difference between God's Word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that…

— Martin Luther

“They testify that nature is not changed but is preserved by God. But the stupid and crazy mob of monks has taught…

— Martin Luther

Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly…

— Martin Luther

There is on earth among all dangers, no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroid reason, especially if she enters…

— Martin Luther

People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the…

— Martin Luther

“The devil is our mortal enemy, the world attacks us horribly, and it is evident everywhere that there is no more miserable…

— Martin Luther

The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting…

— Martin Luther

“Jerome was a marvelous advocate of chastity: yet hear his confession: “O, how often have I thought myself to be in the…

— Martin Luther

“Christ want to point this out and to warn His followers that in the world everyone should live as though he were…

— 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

“For as soon as Christ says: 'This is my body,' his body is present through the Word and the power of the…

— Martin Luther

“There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of…

— Martin Luther

“For the Word created heaven and earth and all things [Ps. 33:6]; the Word must do this thing, and not we poor…

— Martin Luther

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that…

— Martin Luther

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

— Martin Luther

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

— Martin Luther

If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

— Martin Luther

When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over…

— 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

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were…

— Martin Luther