Martin Luther quote about hope from Table Talk - Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
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Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
 Martin Luther, Table Talk (1566). copy citation

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Author Martin Luther
Source Table Talk
Topic hope world action
Date 1566
Language English
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Note Translated by William Hazlitt
Weblink http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/Luther%20Table%20Talk.pdf

Context

“`Tis said St Peter wept whenever he thought of the gentleness with which Jesus taught. Faith is given from one to another, and remains continually in one school. Faith is not a quality, as the schoolmen say, but a gift of God.
CCXCVIII.
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No husbandman would sow one grain of corn, if he hoped not it would grow up and become seed; no bachelor would marry a wife, if he hope not to have children; no merchant or tradesman would set himself to work, if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby, etc.” source

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