Martin Luther Quotes About Education

Quotes about: Education

• 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

• If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

• When schools flourish, all flourishes.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Learning, School

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

  Martin Luther

  Education, Book, Action

• It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?

  Martin Luther

  Education, Cheer, Fun

• Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Long, People

• There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Book, Good Book

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

• One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

  Martin Luther

  Education, Book, Enough

• People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  Martin Luther

  Education, People, Principles

• Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Attention, Done

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

• I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Mean, People

• I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Kindness, Book

• As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Son, Giving

  Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

• One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Children, Study

• It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garmentBut even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Men, Quality

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