Martin Luther Quotes About Theology

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  • I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

  • Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

  • The cross alone is our theology.

    Martin Luther (1903). “The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther, the Hero of the Reformation, the Greatest of the Teuton Church Fathers, and the Father of Protestant Church Literature. Based on the Kaiser Chronological Ed. with Reference to the Erlangen and Walch Eds”
  • Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

  • After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

    "Luther on Education in the Christian Home and School".
  • I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

  • Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

  • I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

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  • I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  • This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

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