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"Beggars are a sure indicator that there are no Christians, or else very few and dispirited ones, in any town in which beggars are seen."
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Andreas Karlstadt
Andreas Rudolph Bodenstein von Karlstadt, better known as Andreas Karlstadt, Andreas Carlstadt or Karolostadt, in Latin, Carolstadius, or simply as Andreas Bodenstein, was a German Protestant theologian, University of Wittenberg chancellor, a contemporary of Martin Luther and a reformer of the early Reformation.
"Beggars are a sure indicator that there are no Christians, or else very few and dispirited ones, in any town in which beggars are seen."
"The popes ... noted that when they led the little sheep to books, their junk market did not prosper and people wanted to know what is godly or ungodly, right or wrong."
"How can you save lay persons when you ascribe to images the power which God gave to his word alone?"