Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, ‘Oh, oh, oh!’ and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.
Martin Luther Quotes
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.
At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its center. ‘Tis the devils kept prisoner there.
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.
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.
