Quote #19

Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.

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  1. [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 keepi…
  2. Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.
  3. 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)
  4. And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, 'If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.' That is, 'After the devil himse…
  5. The 'great things' are nothing less than that she became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed u…
  6. Luther's Works, Church and Ministry III, American Ed., Helmut T. Lehman, Eric W. Gritsch, eds., Augsburg Fortress Press, 1966, Vol. 41:279.…
  7. 'For He that is mighty hath done great things for me, and Holy is His Name' (Luke 1:49). Luther comments:
  8. A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing; Our helper He amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.

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