“ I must even take to myself the sins of others as Christ took mine to himself. Thus we see that the Christian man lives not to himself but to Christ and his neighbor through love. By faith he rises above… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
“When I am told God became man, I can follow the idea, but I just do not understand what it means. For what man,… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
“Who can understand this? Philosophy is unequal to it. Only faith can grasp so high a mystery. This is the foolishness of the cross… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
“We recognize the authority, but we must rebuke our Pilates in their crime and self-confidence. Then they say to us, "You are reviling the… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
“ I must even take to myself the sins of others as Christ took mine to himself. Thus we see that the Christian man lives… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
“Not through thoughts, wisdom, and will does the faith of Christ arise in us, but through an uncommon incomprehensible and hidden operation of the… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
“These are Luther’s own words: I greatly longed to understand Paul’s Epistle to the Romans and nothing stood in the way but that one… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
“The scene lends itself to a dramatic portrayal. Here was Charles, heir of a long line of Catholic sovereigns--of Maximilian the romantic, of Ferdinand… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
“when God in his sheer mercy and without any merit of mine has given me such unspeakable riches, shall I not freely, joyously, wholeheartedly,… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
“Unless a man is already a believer and a Christian, his works have no value at all. They are foolish, idle, damnable sins, because… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
“ Divine majesty does not speak directly to men. God is a consuming fire, and the dreams and visions of the Saints are terrible… .Prove… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
“As God, Christ, the virgin, the prince of the apostles and the shepherds labored even so must we labor in our callings. God had no… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
“Let it be understood that when I say the authority of the Roman pontiff rests on a human decree I am not counseling disobedience.… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
“In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so doing he… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share
