Hans Denck

Hans Denck (c. 1495-1527)

"Oaths and swearing should not be done because no human has power to keep them."

• From Concerning True Love (c. 1527), by Hans Denck, translated b D. Liechty (Paulist Press, 1994).

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther (1483-1546)

"Young fellows are tempted by girls, men who are thirty years old are tempted by gold, when they are forty years old they are tempted by honor and glory, and those who are sixty years old say to themselves, 'What a pious man I have become!'"

• From Martin Luther's Table Talk, published by Luther's friends and students in 1566. Translation in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introduction, edited by Denis R. Janz (Fortress Press, 2008).

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Erasmus

Erasmus (1466-1536 CE)

"No veneration of Mary is more beautiful than the imitation of her humility. No devotion to the saints is more acceptable to God than the imitation of their virtues."

• From Erasmus' "Inner Faith Is Better Than Mere Ritual," translated by John P. Dolan

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther (1483-1546 CE)

"Every lawyer is either a good-for-nothing or a know-nothing. If a lawyer wants to dispute this, tell him, 'You hear? A lawyer shouldn't talk until a sow breaks wind!'"

• From Martin Luther's Table Talk, a collection of Luther's sayings gathered by his students and acquaintances and published after his death.

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther (1483-1546 CE)

"I would rather have the wrath of the world upon me than the wrath of God."

• To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate, 1620.

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther (1483-1546)

"I enter the fray after careful reflection and in a sufficiently hostile frame of mind."

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John Calvin

 

John Calvin (1509-1564)

"I confess, indeed, that I am not poor; for I desire nothing more than what I have."

• From Prefare to the Commentary on the Psalms, by John Calvin, translated by J. Dillenberger (New York: Doubleday, 1971).

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Martin Luther

"Tomorrow I have to lecture on the drunkenness of Noah [Gen. 9:20-27], so I should drink enough this evening to be able to talk about that wickedness as one who knows by experience."

Martin Luther (Table Talk)

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