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Martin Luther Theologian
Children

"On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) [This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them."

Children Mother Kings
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Martin Lawrence Actor, Comedian
Children

"If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing."

Children Giving Two
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Martin Luther Theologian
Children

"I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children."

Children Religious Humor
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Martin Luther Theologian
Children

"The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps."

Children Religious Humor
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Martin Luther Theologian
Children

"Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own."

Children Teaching Earth
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Martin Luther Theologian
Children

"Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion."

Children Effort Church
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Martin Luther Theologian
Children

"Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe."

Children Dog Parent
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Martin Luther Theologian
Children

"The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the Spirit. Thus all Christians must became priests, children of God and co-heirs with Christ the Most High Priest."

Children Christian Water
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Martin Lewis Perl Physicist
Children

"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."

Children Play Sports
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Children

"The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God."

Children Clever Yield
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Mary McCarthy Author
Children

"The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world."

Children Mother Childhood
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Mary McCarthy Author
Children

"... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics."

Children America Happy
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Children

"Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run."

Children Running Strong
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Children

"Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture? But I was doomed to live."

Men Children Parent
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Children

"Toronto I've worked in so many times so you kind of just know every store, every hotel, every - it's really close to New York so it's awesome for my children so if I have to go home for two days it doesn't take very much time. Except for Air Canada. Air Canada is the worst part."

Children Home New York
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Children

"My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world."

Children Mother Joy
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