Martin Luther Quotes

Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for.

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The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do.

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It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.

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The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

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This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.

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Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.

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If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.

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A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them.

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And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.

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Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.

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You can’t be a self-leader if you are an enemy to yourself. Stop the hatred and love yourself.

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To influence people with your leadership gifts, you don’t make them your enemies. When they are your enemies, they won’t take your words seriously; neither will they support your actions.

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Since you can’t be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.

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Not money, not fame and not positions can transform an enemy into a friend but rather, it is love that can do such a job.

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The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife.

~ Germaine Greer

True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions. They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

ON GETTING DRUNK:Those who are Christians are to see to it that they are grateful for grace and redemption and conduct themselves modestly, moderately, and soberly, so that one does not go on living the swinish life that goes on in the filthy world.... ...In my time it was considered a great shame among the nobility [drunkenness]. Now they are worse than the citizens and peasants;...We preach, but who stops it? Those who should stop it do it themselves; the princes even more. Therefore Germany is a land of hogs and a filthy people which debauches its body and its life. If you were going to paint it, you would have to paint a pig. This gluttony is inundating us like an ocean....We are the laughingstock of all the other countries, who look upon us as filthy pigs;...It is possible to tolerate a little elevation, when a man takes a drink or two too much after working hard and when he is feeling low. This must be called a frolic. But to sit day and night, pouring it in and pouring it out again, is piggish. This is not a human way of living. not to say Christian, but rather a pig's life. - Martin Luther

~ Martin Luther

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

~ Martin Luther

‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

~ Martin Luther

The apostle Paul often appears in Christian thought as the one chiefly responsible for the de-Judaization of the gospel and even for the transmutation of the person of Jesus from a rabbi in the Jewish sense to a divine being in the Greek sense. Such an interpretation of Paul became almost canonical in certain schools of biblical criticism during the nineteenth century, especially that of Ferdinand Christian Baur, who saw the controversy between Paul and Peter as a conflict between the party of Peter, with its 'Judaizing' distortion of the gospel into a new law, and the party of Paul, with its universal vision of the gospel as a message about Jesus for all humanity. Very often, of course, this description of the opposition between Peter and Paul and between law and gospel was cast in the language of the opposition between Roman Catholicism (which traced its succession to Peter as the first pope) and Protestantism (which arose from Luther's interpretation of the epistles of Paul). Luther's favorite among those epistles, the letter to the Romans, became the charter for this supposed declaration of independence from Judaism.

~ Jaroslav Pelikan

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

~ Harmon Okinyo