Martin Luther Reason Quotations

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

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.

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.