The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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On the Bondage of the Will

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1525

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Philosophical

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