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One should hasten to put such witches to death.
Statement of 20 August 1538; as quoted in Conversations With Martin Luther (1915)
God has formed the soul and body of the Virgin Mary full of the Holy Spirit, so that she is without all sins, for she has conceived and borne the Lord Jesus.
Faith, like light, should ever be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.
A single little word can strike him dead.
Lying and guile need only to be revealed and recognized to be undone. When once lying is recognized as such, it needs no second stroke; it falls of itself and vanishes in shame.
A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion (1522)
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
Table Talk (1569)
True obedience to God is the obedience of faith and good works; that is, he is truly obedient to God who trusts Him, and does what He commands.
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.
Heidelberg Disputation: Thesis 7 (1518)
By the law is the knowledge of sin [Rom 3:20], so the word of grace comes only to those who are distressed by a sense of sin and tempted to despair.
On the Bondage of the Will (1525)
The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.
Table Talk (1569)
Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the holy Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing.
Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.
The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy.
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel...Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.
Table Talk (1569)
What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.
The Great Catechism. Second Command (1529)
Wherever you see or hear a Jew teaching, do not think otherwise than that you are hearing a poisonous Basiliskus who with his face poisons and kills people.
On the Jews and Their Lies (1543)
The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.
Table Talk (1569)
We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.
Never any good came out of female domination. God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.
Table Talk (1569)