Martin Luther Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Character, Men

• If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Hands, Wish

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

• The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting place. They sit as on a wheelbarrow, without a country, people or government... but they are rightly served, for seeing they refused have Christ and his gospel, instead of freedom they must have servitude.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Government, People

• 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”

• If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Home, Government

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia Publishing House

• 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, Religious, Humor

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

• Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Drinking, Wine

• But then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!

  Martin Luther

  Country, Religious, Forever

  "On the Jews and Their Lies". Book by Martin Luther, 1543.

• Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Law, Church

• What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice: First, that one should set fire to their synagogues. . . . Then that one should also break down and destroy their houses. . . . That one should drive them out the country.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Country, Fire

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