Martin Luther Quotes About Authority
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The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.
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Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.
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He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.
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Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy, to him be power and authority for ever and ever.
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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
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We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
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A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.
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