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It seems to me that we shall have our hands full to keep these commandments.

Such is nature that we all begrudge another’s having as much as we have.

Honor and good name are easily taken away, but not easily restored.

If we look at mankind in all its conditions, it is nothing but a vast, wide stable full of great thieves.

Marriage is not an exceptional estate, but the most universal and noblest.

God wishes to remove the root and source of this bitterness toward our neighbor.

God has exalted this estate of parents above all others.

The Word of God is the true holy thing above all holy things.

The first things that issue and emerge from the heart are words.

The distinctive contours of Luther’s theology had already taken shape before the indulgence controversy broke out, as this 1516 letter to a fellow Augustinian friar… Read More »Letter to George Spenlein