Martin Luther Quotes

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.

Martin Luther

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• The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • American
  • Literature

• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Literature

• Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Knowledge
  • Security
  • Changes

• I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Knowledge
  • Image
  • Islam

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Rocks

• My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Mom

• This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Work
  • Important
  • Truth

• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater

• Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Important
  • Love
  • Parents

• I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Slavery

• I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Knowledge
  • Community
  • Democracy

• Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Why
  • Knowledge
  • Hand

• There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Done
  • Desire

• “Her half-closed eyes were moist and tremulous and languid with desire. I began to drink love from them with thirsty kisses; which revived her spirits a litle.”

  

  Apuleius
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Spirits

• Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Friend
  • Talk
  • Him

• If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

  

  James Thurber
  • Heaven

• they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Mean
  • Morality
  • Dishonesty

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Literature