Ed Martin Quotes

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.

My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.

Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.

Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.

There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.

What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.

The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.

To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

Christians are rare people on earth.

He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.