Author of quotes: Martin Luther

Marriage is good, celibacy is better, but best of all freedom.

Man is born to labor as the bird to fly.
Der Mensch ist zur Arbeit geboren, wie der Vogel zum Fliegen.

No one should leave his neighbor when he is in trouble. Everyone is obliged to help and support his neighbor, if he wants to he himself helped in adversity.

Love, like warmth, should warm up from all sides and bend in response to any plea of our brothers.

The mind is the main enemy of any faith.

Here I stand, I can do no other.

So [people] need to say, of course, true that Christians owe it to yourself not subject to neither law nor sword and need them; but first make sure the whole world was filled with Christians, and then drive like a Christian, according to the gospel. But you will never be able to do. Because the world and most people - Christian and as such will remain, although all are equally baptized and are called Christians. These same Christians live apart, as they say, by hand. It is therefore impossible that the Christian right has spread to the whole world, or whole country or large group of people. After all, evil is always far more than pious. And force the whole country or the world be managed in the gospel - as if the shepherd gathered together in one stable wolves, lions, eagles and sheep and allowed anyone to walk freely among others and said, pasites here and be pious and peaceful, the barn is open pasture all enough, dogs and batons do not be afraid. After that, the sheep would keep the peace, peacefully grazing would be managed; but they would not be able to live so long, because neither one of them would still be alive.

The Duke of Burgundy Charles the next story. One gentleman was taken prisoner by the enemy. The wife of the prisoner begged him for release. Gentleman, however, agreed only on the condition that she sleep with him. Being a godly woman, however, wanted to release her husband. Coming to her husband, she asked, could she for his release agree to the proposal of a nobleman. The husband, eager to break free and save his life, allowed this wife. But the nobleman of sleeping with a woman, the next day ordered to cut off her husband's head and showed her executed. She complained to the Duke Charles. He summoned the nobleman and commanded him to marry this woman. When they were married, Carl was ordered to cut off the nobleman's head, and the woman gave him the estate and gave it to the newly married, and thus, purely by princely punished Vice.

A lie is always writhing like a snake, which is never straight, whether she is crawling or lying at rest; only when she's dead, she's direct and not pretending.

If a person believes nothing will stop him.

We can't prevent the birds from flying over our head, but we will not allow them to sit on the head and twist it in their nests. Similarly, we can't stop bad thoughts sometimes come to mind, but we must not allow them to nest in our brain.

Love, by its very nature, ready to serve and be subservient to those who love.

Those who are not looking for happiness, will find it faster than others; for those who are looking for happiness, they forget that the surest way to achieve happiness for yourself is to seek him for others.

The speech of one person - not a speech you need to hear both sides.