“Let it be understood that when I say the authority of the Roman pontiff rests on a human decree I am not counseling disobedience. But we cannot admit that all the sheep of Christ were committed to Peter. What, then,… — 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
