“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 expression, “the justice of God,” because I took it to mean that justice whereby God is… — 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
