Martin Luther Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Fall, Angel

• The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

  Martin Luther

  Understanding, Humanity, Flesh

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.79

• Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, War, Feet

• We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Believe, Men

• When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

  Martin Luther

  Anger, Writing, Temptation

• Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Sight

• 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'

• For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.

  Martin Luther

  Knowing, Errors, People

• Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.

  Martin Luther

  Night, Men, Skills

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

• Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

  Martin Luther

  Understanding, Riches, Gift From God

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.67

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