Quote #26
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
More from Martin Luther
- Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!
- For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel...Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.
- Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.
- A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 't is a rare bird in the land.
- A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing; Our helper He amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.
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- Luther's Works, Church and Ministry III, American Ed., Helmut T. Lehman, Eric W. Gritsch, eds., Augsburg Fortress Press, 1966, Vol. 41:279.…