Luther (2003)
Florian Panzner: Student 2
Quotes
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Martin Luther : [giving a lecture] When I became a monk I believed the monk's cowl would make me holy. Was I an arrogant fool? Now they have made me a doctor of divinity and I am tempted to believe that this scholar's robe will make me wise.
[laughter]
Martin Luther : Well, God once spoke through the mouth of an ass, and...
[laughter]
Martin Luther : Perhaps he is about to do so again. But...
[leaves his rostrum and starts walking around in the classroom. The students follow him very interested with their eyes]
Martin Luther : I will tell you straight what I think. Who here has been to Rome?
[a student raises his hand]
Martin Luther : Did you buy an indulgence?
Student : No.
Martin Luther : I did. For a silver florin, I freed my grandfather from Purgatory. For twice that I could have sprung grandmother and uncle mothers too, but...
[laughter]
Martin Luther : I didn't have the funds, so they had to stay in the hot place. As for myself, the priests assured me that by gazing at sacred relics, I could cut down my time in purgatory. Luckily for me, Rome has enough nails from the holy cross to shoe every horse in Saxony.
[laughter]
Martin Luther : But there are relics elsewhere in Christendom. Eighteen out of twelve apostles are buried in Spain.
[laughter]
Martin Luther : And yet here in Wittenberg we have the pick on the crown. Bread from the last supper, milk from the virgins breast, a thorn that pierced Christ's brow on calvery and nineteen thousand other bits of sacred bone.
[laughter]
Martin Luther : All authentic, ancient, sacred relics. Even Johann Tetzel himself, inquisitor of Poland and Saxony, seller of indulgences extraordinary, connoisseur of relics, envies our collection.
[laughter]
Martin Luther : To posses them for a single night he would willingly surrender five years of his earthly life...
[laughter, returns to his rostrum]
Martin Luther : Or five hundred years in Purgatory.
[laughter]
