Time Quote by Eric Metaxas

“Luther's return from the cloister to the world was the worst blow the world had suffered since the days of early Christianity.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Luther, the hero of Worms, the champion of the sacred rights of conscience, was, in words, the most violent, but in practice, the least…

— Philip Schaff

“Martin Luther. And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us; We will not fear, for God has willed His truth…

— Mark Hitchcock

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

— Martin E. Marty

“Luther’s breakthrough had a dazzling, corrosive simplicity to it. The power of those twin principles, “faith alone” and “Scripture alone,” lay in the word…

— Alec Ryrie

“The scene lends itself to a dramatic portrayal. Here was Charles, heir of a long line of Catholic sovereigns--of Maximilian the romantic, of Ferdinand…

— Roland H. Bainton

“Luther's opponent in the Peasants' War, Thomas Muntzer is deeply rooted in mystic tradition . . . Muntzer calls the first step in preparing…

— Dorothee Soelle

Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that…

— Anonymous

We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the…

— Cornel West

“Martin Luther claimed that he “never did anything well until his wrath was excited, and then he could do anything well.”

— J Oswald Sanders

“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low…

— W.H. Auden

“Rev. [Martin Luther] King continued, chanting, singing his prophetic litany. We were one people, indivisible in the sight of God, responsible to each other…

— Maya Angelou