Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be d…

Desiderius Erasmus
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Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians. ✨ Desiderius Erasmus, Beatus Rhenanus, John C. Olin (1987). Christian Humanism and the Reformation: Selected Writings of Erasmus, with His Life by Beatus Rhenanus and a Biographical Sketch by the Editor, p.104, Fordham Univ Press
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