Luther Reformation Quotes

#1. The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.

Christopher Buckley

#2. There's no such thing as an easy stage.

Vincenzo Nibali

#3. You're two of a kind, and a bad kind.

Eugene O'Neill

#4. Love is its own reward ...

Thomas Merton

#5. People in hell want snowcones.

Nora Roberts

#6. The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

Nate Silver

#7. What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#8. Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual actions. So ultimately history is another particle/wave duality that no one can parse or understand.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#9. The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.

Lewis Carroll

#10. 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

#11. I stared up at him. "I love you more than I've ever loved anyone. It scares the living daylights out of me."
He grinned. Huge. A boyish, wicked grin that made me feel like my heart might burst out of my chest. "Welcome to my world.

Samantha Young

#12. Luther's doctrine of justification depends upon two things: the constant preaching of the wrath of God in the face of sin; and the realization that every Christian is at once righteous and a sinner, thus needing the hammer of the law to terrify and break the sinful conscience.

Carl R. Trueman

#13. In a letter, Martin Luther, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, wrote to Hans von Rechenberg in 1522 about the possibility that people could turn to God after death, asking: Who would doubt God's ability to do that?

Rob Bell

#14. You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.

Alessandro Volta