“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.”

—  Martin Luther , book Table Talk

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Table Talk (1569)

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seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483–1546

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