11 quotes
For all knowledge contains within itself its diametrical opposite.
Special Exposure of False Faith (1524)
The people will be free and God alone will be their Lord.
Highly Provoked Defense (1524)
The fear of God at the beginning of faith is an unbearable thing to human nature.
Exposure of False Faith (1524)
Thomas Müntzer will not pray to a dumb God, but rather to ones who speaks.
God speaks only in the suffering of creatures, a suffering that the hearts of the unbelievers do not have because they become more and more hardened.
The clergy have never been able to discover, nor will they ever, the beneficial tribulations and useful abyss that the providential spirit meets as it empties itself.
Man must smash to bits his stolen, contrived Christian faith through powerful, enormous suffering of the heart, through an amazement that cannot be rejected. Through this, man becomes very small and despicable in his own eyes.
Special Exposure of False Faith (1524)
The league at Allstedt wanted to establish this principle, Omnia sunt communia, ‘All property should be held in common’ and should be distributed to each according to his needs, as the occasion required. Any prince, count, or lord who did not want to do this, after first being warned about it, should be beheaded or hanged.
Revelation and Revolution: Basic Writings of Thomas Müntzer (1993)
The stinking puddle from which usury, thievery and robbery arises is our lords and princes. They make all creatures their property—the fish in the water, the bird in the air, the plant in the earth must all be theirs. Then they proclaim God's commandments among the poor and say, "You shall not steal." They oppress everyone, the poor peasant, the craftsman are skinned and scraped.
Highly Provoked Defense (1524)
God despises the powerful and the mighty, the likes of Herod, Caiaphas, and Annas, and he accepts for his service the small, like Mary, Zechariah, and Elizabeth. For that is God's way of working , and down to the present day he does not act otherwise.
Special Exposure of False Faith (1524)
Our lords and princes ... make all creatures their property—the fish in the water, the bird in the air, the plant in the earth must all be theirs. Then they proclaim God's commandments among the poor and say, "You shall not steal."