Good God, what a lot of trouble there is in marriage! Adam has made a mess of our nature. Think of all the squabbles Adam and Eve must have had in the course of their nine hundred years. Eve would say, “You ate the apple,” and Adam would retort, “You gave it to me.” —Martin Luther (as quoted by Roland Bainton in "Here I Stand")
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"For although we cannot and should not force anyone to believe, yet we should insist and urge the people that they know what is right and wrong." —Martin Luther
Men cannot do without women. Even if it were possible for men to beget and bear children, they still could not do without women.—Martin Luther
A review of Wesley and the Anglicans by Ryan Danker
"What lies there are about relics! One claims to have a feather from the wing of the angel Gabriel, and the Bishop of Mainz has a flame from Moses’ burning bush. And how does it happen that eighteen apostles are buried in Germany when Christ had only twelve?"—Martin Luther
"The truth might fare better at a lower temperature" -- attributed to Philipp Melanchthon
“If you can show me a single instance of infant baptism in the Bible, I am defeated. Anabaptist doctrine is therefore not new, but derives from Christ.”—Balthasar Hubmaier, Anabaptist reformer
For the 2017 centenary of the Reformation, we highlight our pre-Reformation, Reformation, and counter-Reformation stories.
“By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.”—Erasmus
Containing today’s events, devotional, quote and stories
