Quotes from Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546)

But since the devil's bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks she's wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because [reason] is the Devil's greatest whore. (German: "Vernunft ... ist die höchste Hur, die der Teufel hat.")

Martin Luther's Last Sermon in Wittenberg ... Second Sunday in Epiphany, 17 January 1546. Dr. Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesamtsusgabe. (Weimar: Herman Boehlaus Nachfolger, 1914),Band 51:126,Line 7ff.

...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.” – To His Housewife ( An Seine Hausfrau), end of July 1545, De Wette, vol.v ( Fünfter Theil, 1828 ), p.753. No. MMCCLXXXVI [7]

Few are the woman and maidens who would let themselves think that one could at the same time be joyous and modest. They are all bold and course in their speech, in their demeanor wild and lewd. That is now the fashion of being in good cheer. But it is specially evil that the young maiden folk are exceedingly bold of speech and bearing, and curse like troopers, to say nothing of their shameful words and scandalous coarse sayings, which one always hears and learns from another.” Denifle vol.1, part 1, p.305.

Denifle, Heinrich, Luther and Lutherdom, vol.1, part 1, , tr. from 2nd rev. ed. of German by Raymund Volz, Somerset, England: Torch Press, 1917. Denifle give as his source for this quote: Luther’s works, Erlangen edition, ( 67 vols. ), vol. vi, p.401.

If [women] become tired or even die, that does not matter. Let them die in childbirth--that is why they are there.

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God. - Said to be from V, 1312

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but--more frequently than not --struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

[With thanks to Wikipedia].