What Martin Luther thinks about patience
German theologian and leader of the Protestant Reformation (1483 to 1546); author of On the Freedom of a Christian.
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1 dated position, c. 1520, in their own words. Our reading of what Martin Luther has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe ears of our generation have been made so delicate by the senseless multitude of flatterers that, as soon as we perceive that anything of ours is not approved of, we cry out that we are being bitterly assailed; and when we can repel the truth by no other pretence, we escape by attributing bitterness, impatience, intemperance, to our adversaries.
↗Concerning Christian Liberty, with the Letter to Pope Leo X (1520; English translation)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book