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Fun quotes from Luther

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angellous_evangellous

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"Many sweat to reconcile St. Paul and St. James, as does Melanchthon in his Apology, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict eachother flatly. If anyone can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool."

From Table Talk
 
doppelganger

doppelganger

Through the Looking Glass
"People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth." - Martin Luther, Table Talks
 
doppelganger

doppelganger

Through the Looking Glass
This one was a hit at parties:

"The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting place. They sit as on a wheelbarrow, without a country, people or government... but they are rightly served, for seeing they refused have Christ and his gospel, instead of freedom they must have servitude." - Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lives

"My essay, I hope, will furnish a Christian (who in any case has no desire to become a Jew) with enough material not only to defend himself against the blind, venomous Jews, but also to become the foe of the Jews' malice, lying, and cursing, and to understand not only that their belief is false but that they are surely possessed by all devils. May Christ, our dear Lord, convert them mercifully and preserve us steadfastly and immovably in the knowledge of him, which is eternal life. Amen."
 
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angellous_evangellous

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Small Catechism of Martin Luther (1529) - www.lcms.org/graphics/assets/media/LCMS/smallcatechism.pdf

“First, the pastor should most carefully avoid teaching the Ten Commandments, the Lord's
Prayer, the Creed, the sacraments, etc., according to various texts and differing forms. Let him adopt one version, stay with it, and from one year to the next keep using it unchanged.”

“But those who refuse to learn are to be told that they are denying Christ and do not belong
to Him. They are not to be admitted to the Sacrament, accepted as sponsors at Baptism, or
allowed to exercise Christian liberty in any way. They should instead be simply directed back to the pope and his functionaries, yes, even to Satan himself. Moreover, their parents and
superiors should refuse them food and drink, telling them that the prince is of a mind to expel such rude persons from his realm, and so on.”
 
tomspug

tomspug

Absorbant
The way I see it, nobody's perfect. Everyone's a fool. It's better to judge people based on what they do, not what they say.
 
tomspug

tomspug

Absorbant
Um... no. It isn't.

I could tell you I'm a "Christian", but that doesn't make me one necessarily. I could tell you I'm a kind and generous person, but it might not be true. Like James said, "faith without works is dead".
 
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angellous_evangellous

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tomspug said:
Um... no. It isn't.

I could tell you I'm a "Christian", but that doesn't make me one necessarily. I could tell you I'm a kind and generous person, but it might not be true. Like James said, "faith without works is dead".
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Luther doesn't accept James.:yes:
 
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angellous_evangellous

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I suppose, Tom, that when some of us say something, we are doing something.

When others say something, they are simply speaking.

Napoleon would say "That's the difference between you and I."
 
Smoke

Smoke

Done here.
My favorite Luther quote:
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans serif]"One should not imitate those asses who ask the Latin language how German should be spoken; but should ask the mother in her home, the children in the gutters, the common man at the fair, and watch their big mouths as they speak, and do accordingly."[/FONT]​
 
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MidnightBlue said:
My favorite Luther quote:
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans serif]"One should not imitate those asses who ask the Latin language how German should be spoken; but should ask the mother in her home, the children in the gutters, the common man at the fair, and watch their big mouths as they speak, and do accordingly."[/FONT]​
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Yes I like that one too. It would be better if Satan herself had not created German.
 
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