Lutherans Quotes:

I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

- Pat Robertson

topic: Catholic, Roman Catholic, Lutherans

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

- Martin Luther

topic: Faith, Hope, Wisdom, Social Good, Hope And Faith

The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

- Martin Luther

topic: Christian, Children, Teaching, Maggots, Lutherans

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

- Martin Luther

topic: Inspirational, Doe, Needs, Lutherans

Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.

- Martin Luther

topic: Christian, Religious, Jesus, Lutherans, Challenging The Status Quo

The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

- Ole Hallesby

source: Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

topic: Prayer, Pouring, Woe, Supplication, Lutherans

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

- Tippi Hedren

topic: Strong, Parent, Moral, Lutherans

The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?

- C. F. W. Walther

topic: Love, God, Work, Lutherans, Heart Full Of Love

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

- Philipp Melanchthon

topic: Differences, Unity, Liberty, Lutherans, Protestantism

The blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out..If they are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it is not important : They are Christians. The blood is the same: It is the blood which confesses Christ.

- Pope Francis

topic: Christian, Brother, Blood, Lutherans, Christian Brothers

There's this overly friendly sense of community built up by very isolated people, and there's this Lutheran humbleness that keeps people from talking about their own feelings and asking about yours. What does that do in this modern age where everyone takes pictures of their food, and they share every thought they've ever had in real time?

- Noah Hawley

topic: Real, Talking, People, Modern Age, Humbleness

I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.

- Brittany Murphy

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Christian, School, Church, Lutherans

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

- Michael Servetus

topic: Mistake, Want, Argument, Lutherans

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

- Vladimir Zhirinovsky

source: "Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Religion in Russia". www.forerunner.com. May 1, 1996.

topic: Prayer, House, Problem, Lutherans

The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it (Illuminati) the true and genuine sense of Christian Religion. Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

- Adam Weishaupt

topic: Christian, Believe, Men, Lutherans

Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid thinking and decent Szechwan. If I use Islamic culture I get...not damned much of anything. And ditto for Africa although at least the rhythm is good and you can dance to it. But if I use Western European Culture I get industry, higher standards of living, longer lifespans and a generally happier society. Damn, I think I'll just have to go with WesternCiv even if I do have to put up with the Lutherans.

- John Ringo

topic: Islamic, Thinking, Chinese, Salsa, Islamic Culture

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

- Diana Butler Bass

topic: Media, Chance, Social, Lutherans

One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who dont understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Brotherhood, One Day, Debt, Lutherans, Norwegians

I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.

- Johannes Kepler

topic: Astrology, Nonsense, Lutherans, Kernel

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.

- Vladimir Zhirinovsky

topic: Lines, Baptists, Instance, Lutherans, Pentecostal

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Mother, Self, Nostalgia, Self Pity, Deadly Sins

Many young Danish theologians went to Wittenberg starting in 1517, listened to Luther's theses and, in 1536, brought the Reformation to our country. This is why the Danes, unlike the people of many countries in Eastern and Central Europe, became Lutherans and not Calvinists.

- Margrethe II of Denmark

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Country, Europe, People, Danish, Lutherans

The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around Satan Smiting. Treason? Oh, of course not. They were on a religious pilgrimage and got lost. Happens all the time. I knew a kid who went to Lutheran Bible Camp and turned up six years later in a Christian Identity compound with a shaved head and a Hitler mustache.

- James Lileks

topic: Christian, Religious, Kids, Shaved Head, Lutherans

. If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is that a religious doctrine or a nationalist one? In Germany especially, the whole super-nationalist ideology of the post-1871 empire is heavily imbued with religious teaching, chiefly Lutheran, and frankly viewing the new empire as the germ of the kingdom of God on Earth.

- Philip Jenkins

topic: Religious, Teaching, Believe, Lutherans

If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion and the ruler of the province or the region was Lutheran, to stay a Catholic, you either had to be a dissenter or you had to leave.

- Susan Jacoby

source: "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

topic: Catholic, Germany, Regions, Lutherans

Luther and the Reformation were of fundamental importance to Denmark. We Danes are still Lutherans today. We spoke about him a lot in school, and we feel very close to him.

- Margrethe II of Denmark

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: School, Fundamentals, Today, Lutherans

It is a great privilege to meet inspiring leaders from different parts of the church - Catholic, Baptist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and so many more - and discover that what unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us.

- Nicky Gumbel

topic: Army, Leader, Catholic, Methodists, Lutherans

Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and then to ask about existing ecclesiastical faith (especially about Christianity, and the Lutheran Christianity of his time and place) how this revealed faith must be interpreted if it is to be reconciled with reason, and even seen as a wider (though morally optional) extension of a religion of reason.

- Allen W. Wood

topic: Special, Christianity, Reason, Optional, Lutherans

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

- Richard Rohr

source: Interview with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2011.

topic: Spiritual, Disappointment, Thinking, Lutherans

When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey.

- Jonathan Cain

source: Source: www.christianpost.com

topic: Girlfriend, Children, Blessing, Bay Area, Lutherans

Under the constitution, as the Danish queen I am bound to the Lutheran faith, but that does not exclude people of other faiths.

- Margrethe II of Denmark

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Danish, Lutherans

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

- Wernher von Braun

topic: Mother, Boys, Technology, Cosmology, Lutherans

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

- Michele Bachmann

source: "Interview: Michele Bachmann on Faith, Family". Interview with Isabel Lyman, www.christianpost.com. June 9, 2011.

topic: Christian, Children, Teenager, Lutherans, Christian Family

I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying a stellar death. I am lying there like a sick star waiting for the light to go out. Years ago I lay on this same bed and I waited and waited to be born. Nothing happened. Except that my mother, in her Lutheran rage, threw a bucket of water over me. My mother, poor imbecile that she was, thought I was lazy. She didn't know that I had gotten caught in the stellar drift, that I was being pulverized to a black extinction out there in the farthest rim of the universe.

- Henry Miller

source: Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

topic: Mother, Stars, Lying, Lutherans, Stellar

I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.

- Garrison Keillor

source: Garrison Keillor (1998). “Wobegon Boy”, p.9, Penguin

topic: Mother, Cheer, Sorry, Lutherans, Feel Sorry For You

I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question as I revealed before the court but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.

- Martin Niemoller

source: "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 334), 1984.

topic: Christian, Believe, Home, Anti Semitic, Lutherans

That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.

- Rodney Stark

topic: Religious, Atheist, Believe, Dakota, Lutherans

Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Catholic, Firsts, Steps, Minneapolis, Lutherans

I believe that it is truly important for everyone to confront in dialogue the historical reality of the Reformation, its consequences and the responses it elicited. Catholics and Lutherans can ask forgiveness for the harm they have caused one another and for their offenses committed in the sight of God. Together we can rejoice in the longing for unity which the Lord has awakened in our hearts, and which makes us look with hope to the future.

- Pope Francis

topic: Believe, Heart, Reality, Lutherans

I was baptized Episcopalian when I was maybe two years old and we went to an Episcopalian church. When we moved to Georgia, we started going to a Lutheran church and I fell in love with the church there - Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Douglasville, Georgia. I really have a home there.

- Elana Meyers

source: Source: www.beliefnet.com

topic: Home, Years, Two Year Olds, Lutherans, Good Shepherd

In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.

- Alison Weir

topic: Ideas, Church, Library, Lutherans

The fact of the matter is that Buddhism has changed a lot. When St. Francis of Xavier arrived in Japan, he wrote back to the Vatican and made a joke. "It is unfortunate," he said, "that the Lutherans were here before me." By this he meant that Pure Land Buddhism was so much like Lutheranism.

- Ninian Smart

topic: Buddhism, Japan, Land, Lutherans