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“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.”

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Table Talk (1569)

“It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Lord and still a Virgin.”

Martin Luther

Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], Vol. 11, 319-320

“August 25, 1538, the conversation fell upon witches who spoil milk, eggs, and butter in farm yards. Dr. Luther said: “I should have no compassion on these witches; I would burn all of them. We read in the old law, that the priests threw the first stone at such malefactors, `Tis said this stolen butter turns rancid, and falls to the ground when any one goes to eat it. He who attempts to counteract and chastise these witches, is himself corporally plagued and tormented by their master, the devil. Sundry schoolmasters and ministers have often experienced this. Our ordinary sins offend and anger God. What, then, must be his wrath against witchcraft, which we may justly designate high treason against divine majesty, a revolt against the infinite power of God. The jurisconsults who have so learnedly and pertinently treated of rebellion, affirm that the subject who rebels against his sovereign, is worthy of death. Does not witchcraft, then, merit death, which is a revolt of the creature against the Creator, a denial to God of the authority it accords to the demon?””

Martin Luther

Statement of 25 August 1538, in Table-Talk, as translated by William Hazlitt (1857), DLXXVII

“The will is not free to strive toward whatever is declared good.”

Martin Luther

Thesis 10
Disputation against Scholastic Theology (1517)

“The heathen really make their self-invented notions and dreams of God and idol. Ultimately, they put their trust in that which is nothing. So it is with all idolatry. For it happens not merely by erecting an image and worshipping it, but rather it happens in the heart. For the heart seeks help and consolation from creatures, saints, or devils. It neither cares for God, nor looks to Him for anything better than to believe that He is willing to help.”

Martin Luther Luther's Large Catechism

"On Infant Baptism," Large Catechism (1529)

“…God commanded in the law [Deut. 22:22-24] that adulterers be stoned... The temporal sword and government should therefore still put adulterers to death... Where the government is negligent and lax, however, and fails to inflict the death penalty, the adulterer may betake himself to a far country and there remarry if he is unable to remain continent. But it would be better to put him to death, lest a bad example be set...”

Martin Luther

“… a penny saved is better than a penny earned.”

Martin Luther book Table Talk

The Duty of a Husband and Wife (17 March 1539), No. 4408. LW 54:337 http://books.google.com/books?id=zsbXAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22penny+saved+is+better+than+a+penny+earned%22&amp;dq=%22penny+saved+is+better+than+a+penny+earned%22&amp;lr= <br class="br">Table Talk (1569)

“Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.”

Martin Luther

Dictata super Psalterium (Dictations on the Psalter). This is Luther&#x27;s first major work from the years 1513 to 1515. (See What Luther Says, Ewald Martin Plass, ed., vol. 3, p. 1590. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;tbs=bks%3A1&amp;q=%22This+is+Luther%27s+first+major+work.+It+was+begun+in+the+summer+of+1513%22&amp;btnG=Search&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=) <br class="br">Denifle, Heinrich, Luther and Lutherdom http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029249567, p. 15; primary source: D. Martin Luthers Werke: kritische Gesamtausgabe, Weimar, Herman Bohlau, 1883, Vol. 3, p. 445. http://books.google.com/books?id=9YkVtSs8WdUC&amp;pg=PA1&amp;dq=%22Dictata+Super+Psalterium%22&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=Ms4qTJ3VGIe5nAewp8iqAQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCQQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&amp;q=%22Dictata%20Super%20Psalterium%22&amp;f=false

“They are splendidly built [Italian Hospitals], the best food and drink are at hand, the attendants are very diligent, the physicians are learned, the beds and coverings are very clean, and the bedsteads are painted. As soon as a sick man is brought in, all his clothes are taken off in the presence of a notary and are faithfully kept for him. He is then laid in a handsomely painted bed with clean sheets. Two physicians are fetched at once. Attendants come with food and drink, served in immaculate glass vessels; these are not touched with as much as a finger but are brought on a tray.”

Martin Luther book Table Talk

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Table Talk (1569)

“We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.”

Martin Luther

Thesis 40
Disputation against Scholastic Theology (1517)

“[On the Ninety-five Theses:]”

Martin Luther

“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.”

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“Paul calleth the Galatians foolish and bewitched, comparing them to children, to whom witchcraft doth much harm. As though he should say: It happeneth to you as it doth to children, whom witches, sorcerers, and enchanters are wont to charm by their enchantments, and by the illusions of the devil. Afterwards, in the fifth chapter, he rehearseth sorcery among the works of the flesh, which is a kind of witchcraft, whereby he plainly testifieth, that indeed such witchcraft and sorcery there is, and that it may be done. Moreover, it cannot be denied but that the devil, yea, and reigneth throughout the whole world. Witchcraft and sorceru therefore are the works of the devil; whereby he doth not only hurt men, but also, by the permission of God, he sometimes destroyeth them. Furthermore, we are all subject to the devil, both in body and goods; and we be strangers in this world, whereof he is the prince and god. Therefore the bread which we eat, the drink which we drink, the garments which we wear, yea, the air, and whatsoever we live by in the flesh is under his dominion.”

Martin Luther

A Commentary on St. Paul&#x27;s Epistle to the Galatians https://books.google.com/books?id=zeCWncYgGOgC&amp;pg=PA37&amp;source=gbs_toc_r&amp;cad=3#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false by Martin Luther, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Samuel Simon Schmucker Chapter 3, p. 286 <br class="br">Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (1535)

“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.”

Martin Luther book Table Talk

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Table Talk (1569)

“Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.”

Martin Luther

Holborn, Hajo; A HISTORY OF MODERN GERMANY: The Reformation; 1959/1982 Princeton university Press

“This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.”

Martin Luther

Dieser yrthum von freyen willen ist eyn eygen Artickel des Endchrist. <br class="br">This error about the free will is a peculiar teaching of Antichrist. <br class="br">Grund und Ursach aller Artikel D. Martin Luthers so durch römische Bulle unrechtlich verdammt sind (Defense and Explanation of all the Articles of Dr. Martin Luther which were Unjustly Condemned by the Roman Bull; An Argument in Defense of All the Articles of Dr. Martin Luther Wrongly Condemned in the Roman Bull), Article 36, March 1521. Weimar, 7:451 http://books.google.com/books?id=UQFCAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA451&amp;dq=%22Artickel+des+Endchrist%22&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=4hDMToLiGuepsAK0mOjFDg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=2&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=%22Artickel%20des%20Endchrist%22&amp;f=false http://www.godrules.net/library/luther/NEW1luther_c4.htm http://media.sabda.org/alkitab-8/LIBRARY/LUT_WRK3.PDF http://www.lstc.edu/gruber/luthers_works/1521b.php

“The Law continues to exist and to function. But it no longer exists for me.”

Martin Luther

Source: Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (1535), Chapter 2, Verse 19

“If a woman becomes weary and at last dead from bearing, that matters not; let her only die from bearing, she is there to do it.”

Martin Luther

Sermon Von dem ehelichen Stande (1519), p. 41 — as quoted in The Ethic of Freethought: A Selection of Essays and Lectures (1888) by Karl Pearson, &quot;The Sex-Relations in Germany&quot;, p. 424 <br class="br">The quote actually comes from Von dem eelichen Leben (1522). It can be seen in an original edition here https://books.google.com/books?id=YGZcAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PP28, in a 19th century reissue here https://books.google.com/books?id=wJEKAQAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA538, and in English translation (as &quot; On the Estate of Marriage https://books.google.com/books?id=KFU0DwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA33&quot;) here https://books.google.com/books?id=KFU0DwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA74.

“A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out (Der Sparpfennig ist reicher denn der Zinspfenning).”

Martin Luther

What Luther Says, Section on “Life, Human,” No. 2438. Rules for a Thrifty Life. 2, p. 784 http://books.google.com/books?lr=&amp;id=NQA5AAAAIAAJ&amp;dq=luther+%22penny+saved+is+better+than+a+penny+earned%22&amp;q=+%22penny+%22#search_anchorvol|.

“For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel…Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.”

Martin Luther book Table Talk

67. Compare "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part III, section 4, member 1, subsection 1
Table Talk (1569)