Martin Luther Quotes

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

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• Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Always
  • Fool

• And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Together
  • Know

• He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Death
  • Dark

• True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • True
  • Poetry
  • Dreams

• He was our Jackie Robinson, ... He wanted to make sure you had a place to live, that you were getting food to eat. Some guys, they only learned enough English to order one thing. He wanted to make sure you had money. If you didn't have money for something, he would give it to you.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Live
  • Money
  • Food

• When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

  

  Alice James
  • Women
  • Children
  • Truth

• I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

  

  Lily King
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• You can’t be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Progressive
  • Opposed
  • Pension Reform

• The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Man
  • Eye

• I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Fool
  • Wells
  • Knaves

• There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire
  • Happiness
  • Political Parties

• And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.

  

  William Hurt
  • Trouble
  • Use
  • Example

• I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the promotion of the welfare of China, and an increase in her material prosperity without entanglements or creating embarrassment affecting the growth of her independent political power, and the preservation of her territorial integrity.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Political
  • Growth
  • Independent

• People talk about the highway of life, but I think that’s crap. Highways are nice and paved, and they have signs telling you which way to go. Life isn’t like that at all. There are days when great things happen and everything is beautiful and perfect, and then, just like that, everything can go straight to hell. It’s like getting drunk. At first it feels kinda nice and all relaxed. And all of a sudden the room is spinning and you are throwing up, and, well, maybe life is a little like that.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Life
  • Drunk
  • Sings

• A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.

  

  Alan Redpath
  • Faith
  • Cross
  • Throne

• No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Cross
  • Scriptures
  • Understands