“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 hands and feet of his own. He must continue his labors through human instruments. The lonelier… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“ 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 Image
“Good works do not make a man good, but a good man does good works” — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“ 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 Image
