 | Martin Luther - 1848 - 436 str.
...that children are destitute of reason, they are all the more fit and proper recipients of baptism. For reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never...treating with contempt all that emanates from God. If God can communicate the Holy Ghost to grown persons, he can, a fortiori, communicate it to young... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1857 - 516 str.
...that children are destitute of reason, they are all the more fit and proper recipients of baptism. For reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never...treating with contempt all that emanates from God. If God can communicate the Holy Ghost to grown persons, he can, a fortiori, communicate it to young... | |
 | Richard Ingham - 1871 - 678 str.
...that children are destitute of reason, they are all the more fit and proper recipients of baptism, For reason is the greatest enemy that faith has ; it never...spiritual things, but — more frequently than not — strugglea against the Divine word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. If God can... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 str.
...Our helper He amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.154 Martin Luther wrote in Table Talk, 1569: Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never...Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.155 Martin Luther remarked: Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone,... | |
 | David Yount - 2000 - 262 str.
...critics, by analyzing the Bible down to little pieces, often miss the point altogether. "Reason," he said, "is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes...treating with contempt all that emanates from God." Jesus chose to continue the biblical penchant for revealing God's truth through stories. It is clear... | |
 | Ronda Chervin, Lois August Janis - 2003 - 164 str.
...persuasive power of advertisers and demagogues. Here are some reflections on faith for you to ponder: "Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never...Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from Qod. " Martin Luther (1483-1546) "Someone may say: isn't it stupid to believe what is not seen/ shouldn't... | |
 | Michael Warren - 2005 - 408 str.
...demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil." "Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never...treating with contempt all that emanates from God." "Reason should be destroyed in all Christians." "Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes... | |
 | Tyron Inbody - 2005 - 434 str.
...is impossible,"37 or Luther, who says, "Reason is the greatest 37. Tertullian, De Carne Christi, 5. enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of...Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God."38 But even Tertullian and Luther were not irrationalists. Instead, they repudiated certain uses... | |
 | Richard Dawkins - 2011 - 464 str.
...Luther was well aware that reason was religion's arch-enemy, and he frequently warned of its dangers: 'Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never...Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.'85 Again: 'Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.' And again:... | |
 | Robert Corfe - 2007 - 232 str.
...most notorious in this context were his fulminations against the power of reason, when he declared, "Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never...treating with contempt all that emanates from God." Or again, "Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason;" or, "Reason should... | |
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For reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but — more frequently than not — struggles against the Divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. 
