“When I am told God became man, I can follow the idea, but I just do not understand what it means. For… — Roland H. Bainton Compassion 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… — Roland H. Bainton Christianity 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… — Roland H. Bainton Confidence 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… — Roland H. Bainton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Good works do not make a man good, but a good man does good works” — Roland H. Bainton Good man 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… — Roland H. Bainton Faith 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… — Roland H. Bainton Greater love 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,… — Roland H. Bainton Courage 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,… — Roland H. Bainton Compassion 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… — Roland H. Bainton Christian 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… — Roland H. Bainton Dreams Copy Share Image
“As God, Christ, the virgin, the prince of the apostles and the shepherds labored even so must we labor in our callings. God… — Roland H. Bainton Hands and feet Copy Share Image
“Let it be understood that when I say the authority of the Roman pontiff rests on a human decree I am not… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
“In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so… — Roland H. Bainton Christianity Copy Share Image
“By dying for a conviction a man proves only that he is sincere, not that he is right.” — Roland H. Bainton Faith Copy Share Image
“I call upon you to renounce your diabolical blasphemy...if you will not, we shall all hold your seat as possessed and oppressed… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
“Christianity, said Erasmus, has been made to consist not in loving one’s neighbor but in abstaining from butter and cheese during Lent.” — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
