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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
Table Talk (1569)
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Table Talk (1569)
A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 'tis a rare bird in the land.
Table Talk (1569)
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
Table Talk (1569)
The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.
Table Talk (1569)
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)
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)
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)
What defects women have, we must check them for in private, gently by word of mouth, for woman is a frail vessel.
Table Talk (1569)
Mother love is stronger than the filth and scabbiness on a child, and so the love of God toward us is stronger than the dirt that clings to us.
Table Talk (1569)
Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Table Talk (1569)
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.
Table Talk (1569)
I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can’t be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what’s coming.
Table Talk (1569)
We are beggars: this is true.
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The hair is the finest ornament women have. . . . I like women to let their hair fall down their back, it is a most agreeable sight.
Table Talk (1569)
I have greater confidence in my wife and my pupils than I have in Christ
Table Talk (1569)
so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.
Table Talk (1569)
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them of clay, in the way Adam was fashioned.
Table Talk (1569)
I am entirely of the opinion that the papacy is the Antichrist. But if anyone wants to add the Turk, then the Pope is the spirit of the Antichrist, and the Turk is the flesh of the Antichrist. They help each other in their murderous work. The latter slaughters bodily and by the sword, the former spiritually and by doctrine.
Table Talk (1569)
And I must speak plainly. If I were a judge, I would have such a poisonous, syphilitic whore tortured by being broken on the wheel and having her veins lacerated, for it is not to be denied what damage such a filthy whore does to young blood, so that it is unspeakably damaged before it is even fully grown and destroyed in the blood.
Table Talk (1569)