Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
“Getting closer to home, is it a fully satisfying repentance if we only deal with the past, which cannot be changed? “Alas, what did… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share
There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share
“Of course, the Catholics also believed in grace and faith. But they disagreed on how grace and faith were effected and experienced and what… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share
The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility. — Martin E. Marty Copy Share
I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther. — Martin E. Marty Copy Share
Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share
Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share
All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity — Martin E. Marty Copy Share
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing? — Martin E. Marty Copy Share
The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to the spheres… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share
A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary. — Martin E. Marty Copy Share
If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions. — Martin E. Marty Copy Share
