so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enli — Martin Luther

"It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Lord and still a Virgin."

"There can be no doubt that the Virgin Mary is in heaven. How it happened we do not know."

"But since the devils bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks shes wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because [reason] is the Devils greatest whore."

"Dear rulers … I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. … If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men."

"The will is not free to strive toward whatever is declared good."

"If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth."