Martin Luther Quote

If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.


To the Christian Nobility of the German States (1520), translated by Charles M. Jacobs, reported in rev. James Atkinson, The Christian in Society, I (Luther's Works, ed. James Atkinson, vol. 44), p. 207 (1966).


If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.