In this sort of temptation and struggle, contempt is the best and easiest method of winning over the devil. Laugh your adversary to scorn and ask who it is with whom you are talking. But by all means flee solitude, for the devil watches and lies in wait for you most of all when you […]
Martin Luther Quotes
I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt… people.
The Devil… clutched hold of the miserable young man… and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of (him).
At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.
Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, ‘Oh, oh, oh!’ and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.
I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
A certain wicked priest, when he was chanting the evening prayers on Christmas Eve, said “We have to do all this singing although Mary had only one child. What would it be like if she had had more? We’d have to scream ourselves to death!”
Do as your children do. They go to bed at night and sleep without worries. They don’t care whence they will get soup or bread tomorrow; they know that Father and Mother will take care of it.
