Martin Luther Quotes on Knowledge

Quotes

• Attributed to Martin Luther:

  “A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.”

• “Statements on the Ninety-five Theses :], in a letter to Christoph von Scheurl (5 March 1518), in Letters of Martin Luther (1908), translated by Margaret A. Currie , p. 23”

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• “Latin text: Weimar Briefwechsel (correspondence), 1, n. 62, p. 152, 6)”

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• “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”

  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.

• “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 .”

  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.

• “On Infant Baptism," Large Catechism (1529)”

  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

• “On Infant Baptism," Large Catechism (1529)”

  The heathen really make their self-invented notions and dreams of God and idol. Ultimately, they put their trust in that which is nothing. So it is with all idolatry. For it happens not merely by erecting an image and worshipping it, but rather it happens in the heart. For the heart seeks help and consolation from creatures, saints, or devils. It neither cares for God, nor looks to Him for anythin