Martin Luther citáty

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„Deti sú najľúbeznejšou zárukou manželstva - zväzujú a udržiavajú puto lásky.“

„Láska je jediná sila, ktorá dokáže zmeniť nepriateľa v priateľa.“

„Boh, náš Otec, urobil všetko závislé od našej viery. Ten, kto má vieru, má všetko; kto nemá vieru, nemá nič.“

„Hudba je nejlepší umění. Zahání smutek.“

„Kristus žije. Je mŕtvy len pre toho, kto je mŕtvy.“

„Boh píše evanjelium nielen v Biblii, ale aj na stromoch a kvetoch, oblakoch a hviezdach.“

„Nepoznať Ducha Svätého znamená nepoznať Krista. Kto nepozná Krista, ten nepozná Boha, nevie o cieli svojho života, ženie sa do večných temnôt.“

„Len ten môže obsiahnuť Boha a porozumieť mu, kto chápe jeho slovo.“

„Tu stojím, ináč nemôžem, tak mi Pán Boh pomáhaj.
Worms“

„Naša generácia bude jedného dňa ľutovať nielen slová a skutky zlých ľudí, ale aj hrozivé mlčanie dobrých.“

„Lakomec nemôže urobiť nič užitočnejšieho a lepšieho ako umrieť, pretože za svojho života neslúži ani bohu, ani ľuďom, dokonca ani sám sebe.“

„Našou povinnosťou je brať na seba úlohu milosrdného samaritána pre všetkých, ktorí zostali ležať na ceste. Ale to je len začiatok. Jedného dňa pochopíme, že treba zmeniť celú cestu do Jericha, aby ľudia neboli neustále prepadávaní a okrádaní.“

„Šťastie zmätie ľudí viac než nešťastie.“

„Keby som vedel, že zajtra sa svet rozpadne na kusy, aj tak by som zasadil jabloň.“

„Človek, ktorý nie je ochotný pre niečo zomrieť, nie je hoden toho, aby žil.“

„Nejestvuje ani vzťah, ani spoločenstvo, ani družná skupina, ktoré by boli príjemnejšie a príťažlivejšie, ako je dobré manželstvo.“

„Evanjelium má prenikavé oči a vidí hlboko do srdca.“

„Láska je jednooká, ale nenávisť je úplne slepá.“

„Kto vôbec nemiluje víno, ženy a spev, zostáva po celý život hlupákom.“

„Mier áno, ale pravdu stoj čo stoj.“

„Ľudské srdce je podobné mlynskému kameňu; ak nasypeme podeň pšenicu, rozomelie ju na múku, ak nenasypeme, rozdrví samo seba.“

„Svet chce byť klamaný, nech je teda klamaný.“

„Nespravodlivý zákon vôbec nie je zákonom.“

„List sv. Jakuba je len slameným listom, pretože niet v ňom nič evanjeliové.“

„Žiadny omyl nie je taký veľký, aby nemal svojich poslucháčov.“

„Na svete nie je lepší lesť, ako jazyk svoj na uzde viesť.“

„Nikoho nemôžeš mať za priateľa, s ktorým si predtým nezjedol lyžičku soli.“

„Šťastie nespočíva v šťastí, ale v jeho dosahovaní. Šťastie rum zmätie viac ako nešťastie.“

„Sme spasení iba vierou, ale viera, ktorá spasí, nie je nikdy sama.“

„Kresťan je úplne slobodný pán zo všetkých, nepodlieha nikomu. Kresťan je dokonale poslušný služobník všetkých, podriadený všetkých, podriadený všetkým.“

„To, čo učím a čo píšem, zostane pravdou, aj keby sa celý svet mal kvôli tomu zrútiť.“

“Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift.”

“Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith. … Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.”

“Lastly, we must also know what Baptism signifies, and why God has ordained just such external sign and ceremony for the Sacrament by which we are first received into the Christian Church. But the act or ceremony is this, that we are sunk under the water, which passes over us, and afterwards are drawn out again. These two parts, to be sunk under the water and drawn out again, signify the power and operation of Baptism, which is nothing else than putting to death the old Adam, and after that the resurrection of the new man, both of which must take place in us all our lives, so that a truly Christian life is nothing else than a daily baptism, once begun and ever to be continued.”

“The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.”

“Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind — that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.”

“Our stubbornness is right, because we want to preserve the liberty which we have in Christ. Only by preserving our liberty shall we be able to retain the truth of the Gospel inviolate.”

“I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him: “You, Pope, I will not have you for my boss, for I am sure that my doctrine is divine.””

“God has formed the soul and body of the Virgin Mary full of the Holy Spirit, so that she is without all sins, for she has conceived and borne the Lord Jesus.”

“Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen.”

“Mother Mary, like us, was born in sin of sinful parents, but the Holy Spirit covered her, sanctified and purified her so that this child was born of flesh and blood, but not with sinful flesh and blood. The Holy Spirit permitted the Virgin Mary to remain a true, natural human being of flesh and blood, just as we. However, he warded off sin from her flesh and blood so that she became the mother of a pure child, not poisoned by sin as we are. For in that moment when she conceived, she was a holy mother filled with the Holy Spirit and her fruit is a holy pure fruit, at once God and truly man, in one person”

“The First Sermon on the Day of the Visitation of Mary (Die erste Predigt am Tag der Heimsuchung Mariä).”

“A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.”

“Certainly it is true that Christians, so far as they themselves are concerned, are subject neither to law nor sword, and have need of neither. But take heed and first fill the world with real Christians before you attempt to rule it in a Christian and evangelical manner. This you will never accomplish; for the world and the masses are and always will be un-Christian, even if they are all baptized and Christian in name.”

“Dear rulers … I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. … If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.”

“Faith, like light, should ever be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.”

“The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart.”

“But the other conception, namely the infusion of the soul, it is piously and suitably believed, was without any sin, so that while the soul was being infused, she would at the same time be cleansed from original sin and adorned with the gifts of God to receive the holy soul thus infused. And thus, in the very moment in which she began to live, she was without all sin.”

“so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.”

“Since the law is good, the will, which is hostile to it, cannot be good.”

“Adam was created righteous, acceptable, and without sin. He had no need from his labor in the garden to be made righteous and acceptable to God. Rather, the Lord gave Adam work in order to cultivate and protect the garden. This would have been the freest of all works because they were done simply to please God and not to obtain righteousness. … The works of the person who trusts God are to be understood in a similar manner. Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however, in order to avoid idleness and so that the body might be cared for an disciplined, works are done freely to please God.”

“I frankly confess that, for myself, even if it could be, I should not want "free-will" to be given me, nor anything to be left in my own hands to enable me to endeavour after salvation; not merely because in face of so many dangers, and adversities and assaults of devils, I could not stand my ground; but because even were there no dangers. I should still be forced to labour with no guarantee of success.¦ But now that God has taken my salvation out of the control of my own will, and put it under the control of His, and promised to save me, not according to my working or running, but according to His own grace and mercy, I have the comfortable certainty that He is faithful and will not lie to me, and that He is also great and powerful, so that no devils or opposition can break Him or pluck me from Him. Furthermore, I have the comfortable certainty that I please God, not by reason of the merit of my works, but by reason of His merciful favour promised to me; so that, if I work too little, or badly, He does not impute it to me, but with fatherly compassion pardons me and makes me better. This is the glorying of all the saints in their God.”

“Now, since on God's own testimony, men are 'flesh', they can savour of nothing but the flesh; therefore 'free-will can avail only to sin. And if, while the Spirit of God is calling and teaching among them, they go from bad to worse, what could they do when left to themselves, without the Spirit of God? Your [Erasmus] observation that Moses is speaking of the men of that age is not to the point at all. The same is true of all men, for all are 'flesh'; as Christ says, 'That which is born of the flesh is flesh' (John 3:6) How grave a defect this is, He Himself there teaches, when he says: 'Except a man be born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God (v. 5)…I call a man ungodly if he is without the Spirit of God; for Scripture says that the Spirit is given to justify the ungodly. As Christ distinguished the Spirit from the flesh, saying: "that which is born of the flesh is flesh', and adds that which is born of the flesh cannot enter the kingdom of God', it obviously follows that whatever is flesh is ungodly, under God's wrath, and a stranger to His kingdom. And if it is a stranger to God's kingdom and Spirit, it follows of necessity that it is under the kingdom and spirit of Satan. For there is no middle kingdom between the kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Satan, which are ever at war with each other.”

“His Mohammed, as has been said, commands that ruling is to be done by the sword, and in his Koran the sword is the commonest and noblest work. Thus the Turk is, in truth, nothing but a murderer or highwayman, as his deeds show before men’s eyes.”

“Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.”

“When you see a person squirming in the clutches of the Law, say to him: “Brother, get things straight. You let the Law talk to your conscience. Make it talk to your flesh.”

“On account of this personal union and communion of the natures, Mary, the most blessed virgin, did not conceive a mere, ordinary human being, but a human being who is truly the Son of the most high God, as the angel testifies. He demonstrated his divine majesty even in his mother's womb in that he was born of a virgin without violating her virginity. Therefore she is truly the mother of God and yet remained a virgin.”

“But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them.”

“The blame rests with the government. Why do they not put adulterers to death? Then I would not need to give such advice. Between two evils one is always the lesser, in this case allowing the adulterer to remarry in a distant land in order to avoid fornication...”

“She is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God … It is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God.”