Luther Quotes

Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him.

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

Id love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

Jesus-murdered. Martin Luther King-murdered. Gandhi-murdered. Malcolm X-murdered. Reagan-wounded.

Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service? Luther at least would turn over in his grave.

For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.

I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.

Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

I've got no problem with religion if you're going to use it for the good, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. But that's rarely the case when it comes to politics. It's usually used as a con.

I'm not Martin Luther King. I can't be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel the essence of Martin Luther King is.

Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

Luther Vandross was doing fine, but he said, "Man, I want to do my own project." So he got us all to do a demo, and that demo was "Never Too Much." It took him a year and a half to get signed, because he didn't have a gimmick. The record companies were looking for his gimmick. They said, "What's your gimmick?" He said, "I sing. That's my gimmick." Anyway, he finally got signed and the record was released, and the rest was history.

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"