Ed Martin Quotes

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.

No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth

If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.

Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.

May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope.

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.

Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.

Despair makes priests and friars.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

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

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?

He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.