# “Some pastors are lazy and no good” by Martin Luther

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- Published: 2009-04-13T18:31:27-05:00
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“Some pastors and preachers are lazy and no good. They do not pray; they do not 
study; they do not read; they do not search the Scripture… The call is: watch, study,
attend to reading… [Y]ou cannot read too much in Scripture, what you read you cannot
read too carefully, what you read carefully you cannot teach too well, what you 
teach well you cannot live too well… Therefore dear… pastors and preachers, pray,
read, study, be diligent… This evil, shameful time is no season for being lazy, 
for sleeping, and snoring.”

–Martin Luther, _WA_ 53, 218, as quoted by Fred W. Meuser in “Luther as Preacher
of the Word of God,” in _The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther_, Ed. Donald K.
McKim (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 141.

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