Martin Luther Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

  Martin Luther

  Humble, Humility, Doe

• Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

  Martin Luther

  Crowns, Virtue, Obedience

• In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Light, Evil

  Martin Luther (1848). “The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther”, p.2

• It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Men, Medicine

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1960). “Career of the Reformer”

• 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

• Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Judging, Faults

• Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Failure, Men

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