Martin Luther Quotes

Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?

Martin Luther

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• Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Children
  • Woman
  • Understands

• The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Sell
  • Understands

• The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

  

  Confucius
  • Gentleman
  • Master
  • Understands

• Those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.

  

  Confucius
  • Understands
  • Enjoys
  • Appreciates

• He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Learned
  • Controls
  • Understands

• How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • Understands
  • Move On

• Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Night
  • Health

• Faith is God's work within us.

  

  John Calvin
  • Faith
  • God's Works

• Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

  

  Homer
  • Fool
  • Harm
  • Understands

• In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Help
  • Way
  • Understands

• The fact that our traditional method of extracting doctrine from Scripture does not work well on narrative does not mean that Bible stories do not send clear messages. Instead, it suggests that the way we apply our traditional method of interpretation is inadequate because we are ignoring too much of God’s Word.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Interpretation
  • God's Word
  • Apply

• If we spend twenty minutes a day reading our Bibles, but the remaining twenty-three hours and forty minutes ruminating on unbiblical thoughts, then it is no wonder that our sinful beliefs and values are so stubborn and our sinful emotions so strong. Sinful ruminating can reverse the good effects of time spent in God’s Word. It slows our growth and keeps us stuck in the same sinful emotions. We can’t expect to grow godly emotions in the soil of our sinful ruminations, so if we struggle to change our beliefs and values, this bad habit is the place to start.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • Effects
  • Reverse
  • God's Word

• Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.

  

  Andrea Camilleri
  • Friendship
  • Ask
  • Understands

• Readable, faithful, accurate-what more could you ask for in a modern translation of the Bible? GOD'S WORD Translation is a great version for enhancing your love for God's Word. I recommend it.

  

  Ann Spangler
  • Bible
  • Translation
  • God's Word

• Biblical spirituality does not consist primarily of mystical, emotional experience, inward impressions and feelings, introspective meditation, or a monastic withdrawal from the world. The primary spiritual disciplines advocated by Scripture are prayer and the obedient study of God’s Word.

  

  Andreas J. Kostenberger
  • Study
  • Prayer
  • Spirituality

• That's a baseball mom. I thought it was pretty admirable of my mom. She said she understands the amount of injuries we have around here, and the time of year it is, and she felt bad about it.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Bad
  • Felt
  • Injuries

• The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood.

  

  Eliot Pattison
  • Understands
  • Buddhahood

• We mustn't claim to stand for our King but then deny Him by living a fleshly existence. Our King's Mighties don't shy away from the blazing searchlight of God's Word, but rather, willingly expose their souls and cry, 'Dear King, if there be anything that stands between You and me, if there be anything that shrouds Your glory, if there be anything that will weaken my sword in battle, purge it, slay it, utterly destroy it!

  

  Eric Ludy
  • King
  • Existence
  • Destroy

• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

  

  William James
  • Attitude
  • Capacity
  • Depends

• I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • I Consider
  • Recipient
  • Good Rule

• There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Edge

• Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?

  

  Martin Luther
  • God's Word
  • Understands
  • God's Works