Martin Luther Quotes About Drinking

Quotes about: Drinking

• Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

  Martin Luther

  Funny, Drinking, Sleep

• Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

  Martin Luther

  Sports, Drinking, Beer

• It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

• We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Drinking, Food

• Beer is made by men, wine by God.

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

• Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Wine, Thinking

  Martin Luther, Theodore G. Tappert (2003). “Luther: Letters of Spiritual Counsel”, p.86, Regent College Publishing

• 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

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