“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
“He got into the car thinking that people were interesting. Sometimes they just couldn’t distinguish the truth from bullshit. Sometimes they didn’t want to. It was often easier just to believe a lie.”
― Redemption
― Redemption
“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
“That was the way it was, the burial ritual. You set them in the earth and walked away to keep living, until it was your turn to be left behind.”
― The Guilty
― The Guilty
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