“Unlike other reformers, Luther rarely claimed divine inspiration for his ideas. It is interesting too that he uses the word Kunst—art—for it suggests that the insight, like the skill of a craftsman or artist, opened up a whole new ability to accomplish things in a different way.”
― Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
― Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
“She did not believe in a benign higher being. She could not. She had suffered too much to think of a heavenly force in the sky that would let such evil walk the earth without lifting a hand to stop it.”
― The Target
― The Target
“The authors of Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife.”
― Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
― Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
“Luther describes how backbiters are like hyenas or dogs who dig up stinking human corpses, pullulating with decay and full of worms, and bite into them—“Ugh, what a dreadful monster the backbiter is!”
― Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
― Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
“You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.”
― The Innocent
― The Innocent
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