Martin Luther Quotes on Nature
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 nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.”
Table Talk(1569) | 171 -
“Man is by nature unable to want God to be God. Indeed, he himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God.”
Disputation against Scholastic Theology(1517) | Thesis 17 -
“Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.”
Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians(1535) | Chapter 2, Verse 14 -
“If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.”
To the Christian Nobility of the German States (1520), translated by Charles M. Jacobs, reported in rev. James Atkinson, The Christian in Society , I (Luther's Works, ed. James Atkinson, vol. 44), p. 207 (1966)