“Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.”

— Martin Luther , book On the Bondage of the Will

Source: On the Bondage of the Will (1525), p. 202

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seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483–1546

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