Martin Luther Quotes
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
Luther, Martin. Luther's Works, Volume 32: Career of the Reformer II. Edited by George W. Forell, Muhlenberg Press, 1958, p. 112.
We was asked to recant his “heretical” ideas and he would be freed. He was finally freed without recanting and when he established Pennsylvania there was freedom of conscience for all, not even common then in the American Colonies.
Martin Luther, O.S.A. was a German professor of theology, priest, author, composer, Augustinian monk, and a seminal figure in the Reformation. Luther was ordained to the priesthood in 1507. He came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church; in particular, he disputed the view on indulgences. Luther proposed an academic discussion of the practice and efficacy of indulgences in his Ninety-five Theses of 1517. His refusal to renounce all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Holy Roman Emperor.
