Martin Luther Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Children, Heart

• Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

  Martin Luther

  Family, Children, Apples

• Good news from heaven the angels bring,
  Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
  To us this day a child is given,
  To crown us with the joy of heaven.

  Martin Luther

  Christmas, Children, Angel

• But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Love Is, Wife

• The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Children, Teaching

• All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Struggle, Home

• It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness and wellbeing, he may be enabled to labour, and to acquire and preserve property, for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfiling the law of Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Children, Law

  "Concerning Christian Liberty".

• Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is there to do it.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Home, House

• The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Children, Husband

  "Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis".

• Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Christian, Children

• I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now.

  Martin Luther

  Children, People, Doe

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.100, Fortress Press

• In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Parenting, Punishment

• Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Doe, Goes On

• Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Children, Father

  Martin Luther (1962). “The Christian in society”

• You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Children, Home

• Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Jesus, Children

• Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Taught, Hell

  "Dr. Martin Luther's Sämtliche Werke" by Polemische Deutsche Schriften, Johann Konrad Irmischer, Erlangen, vol. 28, (p. 347), 1833.

• Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Children, Military

  Letter to the German rulers (1524) in "The History of Compulsory Education in New England" by John William Perrin, 1896.

• Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Grief, Believe

• Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Single Child, Abortion

  Martin Luther (1962). “The Christian in society”

• I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Pupils, Catechism

  Martin Luther (2012). “The Large Cathechism of Martin Luther”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

• Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Home, Men

  Table Talk 'Of Marriage and Celibacy'

• Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Children, Pain

  Martin Luther (1956). “The sermon on the mount and the magnificat”

• Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Teaching, Earth

• The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the Spirit. Thus all Christians must became priests, children of God and co-heirs with Christ the Most High Priest.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Children, Water

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