Quotes by Martin Luther

“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.”

“Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.”

“He who hears this name (God) from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away”

“We are at fault for not slaying them (the Jews)”

“Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and ve”

“Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth”

“The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes”

“I maintain that some Jew wrote it (the Book of James) who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any”

“Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools”

“If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth”

“Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.”

“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart”

“There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.”

“You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.”

“He who does not receive my doctrine cannot be saved”

“Reason is the enemy of faith”

“The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps”

“No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise”

“Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in d”

“Reason should be destroyed in all Christians”