Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!
Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quoted in collections of his sayings, often from 'Table Talk'.
1530s-1540s (Table Talk)
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"The best way to preach is to get down to the level of the people."
Strange & Unusual"A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating."
Controversial"If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptize thee in the name of Abraham.'"
Controversial"Melanchthon is a miserable little worm of a man."
Shocking"Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also; The body they may kill: God's truth abideth still, His kingdom is forever."
Philosophical