The Devil… clutched hold of the miserable young man… and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of (him).
Martin Luther Quotes
At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.
Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, ‘Oh, oh, oh!’ and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.
The Devil fears the word of God, He can’t bite it; it breaks his teeth.
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.
I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
A certain wicked priest, when he was chanting the evening prayers on Christmas Eve, said “We have to do all this singing although Mary had only one child. What would it be like if she had had more? We’d have to scream ourselves to death!”
Do as your children do. They go to bed at night and sleep without worries. They don’t care whence they will get soup or bread tomorrow; they know that Father and Mother will take care of it.
