Luther Quotes (about Katharina)

“My wife can coax me as often as she wants; she has the entire dominion in her hand, and I yield to it.”

“I don’t worry about debts because when Katie pays one another comes.”

To someone seeking room and board: “The Table is full and I cannot expel any of the other guests. But if a vacancy occurs, I will gladly notify you, . . . if Lord Kate will then give me her gracious permission.”

“I clearly sense that the Day of the Lord is near . . . Meanwhile, I eat and drink, read Scripture, happily sleep with my Katharina, and pray.”

“Some young brides like to ask their husbands unimportant questions, no matter how busy he may be. When we were first married, Kate used to sit right next to me. One time when I was studying and she was spinning, Kate asked, “Is the grandmaster of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia the brother of the Margrave?”

“To have grace and peace in marriage is a gift second only to the knowledge of the Gospel. Kate, you have a god-fearing man who loves you. You are an empress; realize it and thank God for it.”

“I am rich. My God has given me a nun and three little children.”

“I would not trade my Kate for France and Venice.”

“My Katie is in all things so obliging and pleasing to me that I would not exchange my poverty for the riches of Croesus.”

“Martinchen [their son], nursing peacefully on Kate’s breast, does not care if the pope, bishops, Duke George, King Ferdinand , and all the devils hate him.”

“I often lie next to my Kathen, truly a woman worthy to be loved, when I am worried and fearful and bathed in cold sweat.”

“God has given her to me and me to her.”

“The Letter to the Galatians is my beloved epistle; I trust it. It is my Kate von Bora.”