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Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear

Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.

Martin Luther
Children, Home, Men
Table Talk 'Of Marriage and Celibacy'

Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.

Martin Luther
Children, Teaching, Earth

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.

Martin Luther
Children, Parenting, Punishment

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

Martin Luther
Religious, Children, Humor

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

Martin Luther
Children, Taught, Hell
"Dr. Martin Luther's Sämtliche Werke" by Polemische Deutsche Schriften, Johann Konrad Irmischer, Erlangen, vol. 28, (p. 347), 1833.

On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) [This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them.

Martin Luther
Mother, Kings, Children

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.

Martin Luther
Religious, Children, Humor
Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.325

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.

Martin Luther
Children, Effort, Church
Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.101, Lulu.com

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

Martin Luther
Dog, Children, Parent
Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.13, Lulu.com

The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the Spirit. Thus all Christians must became priests, children of God and co-heirs with Christ the Most High Priest.

Martin Luther
Christian, Children, Water

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