Martin Luther Quotes on Death
Martin Luther was a German Augustinian friar, theologian, and the principal initiator of the Protestant Reformation. This page collects quotes attributed to Martin Luther on the topic of death, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“If a woman becomes weary and at last dead from bearing, that matters not; let her only die from bearing, she is there to do it.”
Sermon Von dem ehelichen Stande (1519), p. 41 — as quoted in The Ethic of Freethought: A Selection of Essays and Lectures (1888) by Karl Pearson , "The Sex-Relations in Germany", p. 424 | The quote actually comes from Von dem eelichen Leben (1522). It can be seen in an original edition here , in a 19th century reissue here , and in English translation (as " On the Estate of Marriage ") here . -
“A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.”
Table Talk(1569) | 352 -
“Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.”
On Marriage (1530) -
“The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.”
"Heidelberg Disputation: Thesis 7" (1518), http://bookofconcord.org/heidelberg.php#7 -
“A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing. Our helper He amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.”
Psalm. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (1529), translated by Frederic H. Hedge, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations , 10th ed. (1919)