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date: 16 March 2025

Martin Luther 1483–1546
German Protestant theologian 

  1. Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
    letter to Melanchthon, 1521, in Epistolae (Jena, 1556) vol. 1, folio 345 verso
  2. Here stand I. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
    speech at the Diet of Worms, 18 April 1521; attributed
  3. For, where God built a church, there the devil would also build a chapel…In such sort is the devil always God's ape.
    Colloquia Mensalia (1566) ch. 2 (tr. H. Bell as Martin Luther's Divine Discourses, 1652)
  4. A safe stronghold our God is still,
    A trusty shield and weapon.
     
    ‘Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott’ (1529); tr. Thomas Carlyle
  5. Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
    Large Catechism (1529) ‘The First Commandment’
  6. Who loves not woman, wine, and song
    Remains a fool his whole life long.
     
    attributed (later inscribed in the Luther room in the Wartburg, but with no proof of authorship)