"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."
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"Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells."
"It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one."
"I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good."
"If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world."
"Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!""
"What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?"
"Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery."
"It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garmentBut even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us."
"Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded."
"My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine."
"The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still."
"If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth."
"Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew."
"Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason."
"He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away."
"The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning."
"The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God."
"Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God."
"Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy."