Calvin Quote by Alec Ryrie

“These kinds of secrets are not given out lightly. You know that. We calculate collateral damage and escape routes. We plan and brace for…

— Nora Sakavic

“Luther looks at all the jobs that are out there and he says, “These are the masks of God, behind which He wants to…

— Timothy Keller

“The Gotha sermon takes us closer than any other testimony to the religious despair and overwhelming sinfulness that Luther felt as a monk. And…

— Lyndal Roper

“What accounts for Luther's behavior? One things is certain: Whatever defense mechanisms normal people have to mute the accusing voice of conscience, Luther was…

— R.C. Sproul

“I remember the words of Luther, that reading, prayer, and temptation are necessary to strengthen, and to purify the talents of a minister.”

— Christmas Evans

“Martin Luther claimed that he “never did anything well until his wrath was excited, and then he could do anything well.”

— J Oswald Sanders

“From a psychological perspective, no Christian construct in Luther’s time was as specifically therapeutic for obsessions and compulsions as that which he discovered. Only…

— Ian Osborn

“Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their "Amens" and seen them gather on…

— Dennis Lehane

“Luther says that vocations are a “mask from God. That is, God hides Himself in the workplace, the family, the Church, and the seemingly…

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

“It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public,…

— Martin Luther

“Luther, the hero of Worms, the champion of the sacred rights of conscience, was, in words, the most violent, but in practice, the least…

— Philip Schaff

“Once the Lutheran churches were secure, Luther, like most other leaders of the Reformations, believed in freedom of conscience only for those who agreed…

— Rodney Stark