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Reason Quotes by Martin Luther
- Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.
- Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the…
- Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of…
- Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience…
- Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.
- We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the…
- There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.
- As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.
- Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.
- Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
- Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink,…
- That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.
- It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this…
- The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.
- It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or…
- Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not…
- If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would…
- Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
- Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.
- How can a reason which hates God be called sound?
- This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.
- Reason is the enemy of faith.
- Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
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