Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piety or goodness, move… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“If Lutheranism is to be Lutheran, we must recapture our comfort level with the catholic shape of our identity and this means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If Catholicism harbors the promise of redemption from its very beginning, found in confession and remorse, then Lutheranism stands clearly and starkly… — Ilit Ferber Copy Share Image
Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“Since in fact liturgical traditions, vestments, church vessels, etc., were immediately removed wherever Calvinism infiltrated or Reformed ideas even gained influence in… — Ernst Walter Zeeden Copy Share Image
“God once spoke through the mouth of an ass. I will tell you straight what I think. I am a Christian theologian… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The Pelagianizing Romanist says, Lust, or concupiscence, brings forth sin, therefore it cannot be sin, because the mother cannot be the child.… — Charles Porterfield Krauth Copy Share Image
“Who can understand this? Philosophy is unequal to it. Only faith can grasp so high a mystery. This is the foolishness of… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
“The scene lends itself to a dramatic portrayal. Here was Charles, heir of a long line of Catholic sovereigns--of Maximilian the romantic,… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
“It is the distinctive position of the Reformation with which, over against Rome, it stands or falls, that that which properly constitutes,… — Charles Porterfield Krauth Copy Share Image
