Martin Luther Quotes

Christian life consists of faith and charity.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils – who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all all – to befriend them and to do them honor simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I […]

People give ear to an upstart astrologer (Copernicus) who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science […]

The wisdom of the Greeks, when compared to that of the Jews, is absolutely bestial; for apart from God there can be no wisdom, not any understanding and insight.

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

What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews?… I will give my faithful advice: First, that one should set fire to their synagogues… Then that one should also break down and destroy their houses… That one should drive them out the country.

They remain our daily murderers and bloodthirsty foes in their hearts. Their prayers and curses furnish evidence of that, as do the many stories which relate their torturing of children and all sorts of crimes for which they have often been burned at the stake or banished.

Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils – who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all – to befriend them and to do them honor simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would […]

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover.