Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Table Talk, or other collected sayings
c. 1530s-1540s
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Cross Reference
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"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer."
Humorous"Beer is made by men, wine by God."
Strange & Unusual"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"These are the Scriptures which make fools of all the wise and understanding, and are open only to the small and simple, as Christ says in Matthew 11:25."
Humorous"Tomorrow I have to lecture on the drunkenness of Noah [Gen. 9:20-27], so I should drink enough this evening to be able to talk about that wickedness as one who knows by experience."
Humorous