Martin Luther Quotes

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

Martin Luther

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• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Men
  • Sin

• Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Internet
  • Might
  • Holocaust

• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sin
  • Paradise
  • Return

• Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • American
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Single
  • Sin
  • Reward

• Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Religious
  • Woman
  • Sin

• I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • American
  • Might
  • Filmmaker

• The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Pride
  • First
  • Sin

• There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Question
  • Sin
  • Seeing

• I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

  

  James Brown
  • Funny
  • inspirational
  • Might

• The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Sin
  • Against

• Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure
  • Sin

• I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Power

• Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Giving
  • Jesus
  • Sea

• I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Might

• Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Sin
  • Ugliness

• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poverty
  • Sin
  • Shame

• There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Passion

• In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Truth
  • Success
  • Joy

• The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knows
  • One
  • Realizes

• I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Boring
  • Watch myself

• There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Culture
  • Responsibility

• On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Survive
  • Hypocrisy
  • Chessboard

• Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Sin
  • Might
  • Lord Jesus