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Ceremonies are like builders' temporary preparations: needed, but not the building
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- Martin Luther German theologian and leader of the Protestant Reformation (1483 to 1546)
Hence in the Christian life ceremonies are to be no otherwise looked upon than as builders and workmen look upon those preparations for building or working which are not made with any view of being permanent or anything in themselves, but only because without them there could be no building and no work.
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