Religious Quotes - Page 35

• A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Humor, Numbers

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• At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Lakes, Storm

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Land, Prussia

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• How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

  Martin Luther

  Girl, Humor, Water

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.325

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• I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Stoves, Priests

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• I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Humor, People

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• I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Humor, Years

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.325

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• In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Humor, Numbers

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

  Martin Luther

  Hurt, Humor, Dark

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• Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Sweat, Doctors

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• Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Suffering, Devil

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.252

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• The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Devil, Way

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• The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Real, Humor

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• The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Men, Devil

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• The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Taken, Humor, Doctors

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.328

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• The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Humor, Devil

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• The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Humor, Biblical

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• The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Wind, Devil

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Humor, Rude

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• To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Humor, Eye

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• Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Air, Two

  Martin Luther, Jules Michelet (1846). “The Life of Luther”, p.326

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• We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Faults, Slaying

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• We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Years, World

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• We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Humor, Blood

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• We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Air, Devil

  Martin Luther (1904). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”

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