You owe nothing to God except faith and confession. In all other things He lets you do whatever you like. You may do as you please, without any danger of conscience whatsoever.
Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Table Talk, or other collected sayings
c. 1530s-1540s
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"I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist."
Controversial"I would not give my faith for all the world's goods."
Strange & Unusual"It is enough to know simply that there is a certain inscrutable will in God, and as to what, why, and how far it wills, that is something we have no right whatever to inquire into, hanker after, care …"
Philosophical"A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating."
Controversial"The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees."
Strange & Unusual