Martin Luther Quotes

Priests, Bishops, and Popes … are neither different from other Christians nor superior to them.

I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.

If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day making intercession for the extension of Christ's Kingdom.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

No one can sense his own weakness is at least a small temptation is not allowed to afflict either his body or his soul. Then, comparing his weakness to the help of God, a man comes to know its magnitude. But whoever does not know that he needs God's help, let him make many prayers. Insofar as he multiplies them, in that measure will he be humbled.

When a warrior is present and awake to all that she is, she is able to take on any challenge, any project, or any future that she desires. Her daily prayer is to have the strength to love all of herself, the courage to listen to what she is guided to do and the confidence to go out, stand tall and deliver her gifts to the world.

I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.

But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine who we are; they reveal who we are.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.

You're not gonna tell me who I am. I'm gonna tell you who I am.

These days we don’t have to fit into something other people think we are. We’ve leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. I’m a mom, sex detective, wife, fearless, gentle — we can now, with grace, be all of what we are.

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

I think women are not interested in being like "the man" or having the same position as "the man." Women want to be women with equal rights. At this point now, we're very clear about that. I don't want to be the same as him. I want to be me with the same opportunity. So I think that's the difference of today than the fight that my mom had to fight, which was a little bit different and as complicated.

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is more important than the clothes.

I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.