“Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift.”

—  Martin Luther

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 221

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seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483–1546

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