Quotes about Reflection
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
— Martin Luther
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
— Martin Luther
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
— Martin Luther
I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
— Martin Luther
I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.
— Martin Luther
Each one should become as it were a Christ to the other that we may be Christs to one another and Christ may be the same in all, that is, that we may be truly Christians.
— Martin Luther
Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.
— Martin Luther
Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.
— Martin Luther
It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public, or you did not reflect that it was Luther you were writing against, whom I hope you allow nonetheless to have some acquaintance with Holy Writ and some judgment in respect of it.
— Martin Luther
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
— Martin Luther
your thoughts concerning God are too human.
— Martin Luther
What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?
— Martin Luther