All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.

If the peasants are in open rebellion, then they are outside the law of God. Therefore let all who are able slash, strike down, and kill (those who rebel) openly and secretly, remembering that there can be nothing more venomous, harmful, or devilish than a rebel. It is exactly like killing a mad dog.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian.