Quotes about martin-luther

A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it they will focus and do what they can.

Whatever you are waiting for won’t come to you you have to go for it.

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 Germa

From the outset, Protestantism rejected the critical medieval distinction between the 'sacred' and 'secular' orders. While this position can easily be interpreted as a claim for the desacralization of the sacred, it can equally well be understood as a claim for the sacralization of the secular. As early as 1520, Luther had laid the fundamental conceptual foundations for created sacred space within the secular. His doctrine of the 'priesthood of all believers' asserted that there is no genuine di

‎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.

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 P

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

When the leader grows, the organization grows.

This is an everyday question and you must take note of it always. When you wake up, it should be among your number one thoughts. What are you doing for others?

No one has the right to pee on your dreams!

Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease.

Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.

The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.

Leaders make impacts. If your riches don’t help you to make impacts, you aren’t leading anyone; rather, money is leading you.

Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention.

Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.

Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.

Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.

Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.

Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.

A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.

Leaders fight hard wars againstinjustice and unfairness. Theybelieve that the truth is a weapon;when triggered, the lie dies.

Hiding the truth is as evil as feedingthe lie grow tough muscles.

Promised yourself never to keep quiet on the truth. Speak it out and let the lie die

Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.

Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!

Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.

Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!

When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you.

Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.

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.

Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.

I have covenanted with my Lord that He should not send visions, or dreams or even angels! I am content with this gift of the Scriptures, which teaches and supplies all that is necessary both for this life and that which is to come.

If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.

Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.

Most of the people who attempt to draw back the success of the world are those who don’t care about anything. They live life every day without asking why.

It’s never wrong to be rich, but I want to believe, success is not limited to riches; it involves influence. If your riches don't create any impact, you are missing it.

At the end of it all, it is our relationship with people that will determine whether they will share in our pain if we fall into dangers.

Never take tiny dreams for granted. They contain giant success stories.

Remember, one step leads to the other and therefore never neglect the first step. It will give you the confidence you need to sail through with victory

People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that’s the job of vision.

Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time.

Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.

Sometimes, people don’t need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.

Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.

I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together, Spanish coming together, different cultures and religions understanding and coming together despite their differences. Slavery was never something that shocked me. What shocks me is how black people have not yet overcome the odds and we're such strong smart people. Why we can't just stand together?

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.

Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.

Do what you can with all love and passion irrespective of whether it pays you well or not. Joy in the result lives longer than the joy in the reward.

Manifest in this trade (commercial sale of indulgences via bankers) at the same time was a pernicious tendency in the Roman Catholic system, for the trade in indulgences was not an excess or an abuse but the direct consequence of the nomistic degradation of the gospel. That the Reformation started with Luther’s protest against this traffic in indulgences proves its religious origin and evangelical character. At issue here was nothing less than the essential character of the gospel, the core of C