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“When God in his sheer mercy and without any merit of mine has given me such unspeakable riches, shall I not then freely, joyously, wholeheartedly, unprompted do everything that I know will please him? I will give myself as a sort of Christ to my neighbor as Christ gave himself for me.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“A simple layman armed with Scripture is to be believed above a pope or a council without it.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.”
― Roland Bainton

“But he is not therefore to be lazy or loose. Good works do not make a man good, but a good man does good works. A bishop is not a bishop because he consecrates a church, but he consecrates a church because he is a bishop. Unless a man is already a believer and a Christian, his works have no value at all.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life Of Martin Luther

“was more devastating than anything that had preceded; and when Erasmus read the tract, he ejaculated, “The breach is irreparable.â€� The reason was that the pretensions of the Roman Catholic Church rest so completely upon the sacraments as the exclusive channels of grace and upon the prerogatives of the clergy, by whom the sacraments are exclusively administered.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life Of Martin Luther

“God has called men to labor because he labors.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life Of Martin Luther

“When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world.”
― Roland H. Baiton

“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, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“October 21, 1525, Luther confided to a friend, “My Katherine is fulfilling Genesis 1:28.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life Of Martin Luther

“Not through thoughts, wisdom, and will does the faith of Christ arise in us, but through an uncommon incomprehensible and hidden operation of the Spirit, which is given by faith in Christ only at the hearing of the Word and without any other work ours.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“My mother caned me for stealing a nut, until the blood came. Such strict discipline drove me to the monastery, although she meant it well.â€� This saying is reinforced by two others: “My father once whipped me so that I ran away and felt ugly toward him until he was at pains to win me back.â€� “[At school] I was caned in a single morning fifteen times for nothing at all. I was required to decline and conjugate and hadn’t learned my lesson.â€� Unquestionably the young were roughly handled”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“As God, Christ, the Virgin, the prince of the apostles, and the shepherds labored, even so must we labor in our callings. God has no hands and feet of his own. He must continue his labors through human instruments. The lowlier the task the better. The milkmaid and the carter of manure are doing a work more pleasing to God than the psalm singing of a Carthusian. Luther never tired of defending those callings which for one reason or another were disparaged. The mother was considered lower than the virgin. Luther replied that the mother exhibits the pattern of the love of God, which overcomes sins just as her love overcomes dirty diapers.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“If there is any sense remaining of Christian civilization in the West, this man Luther in no small measure deserves the credit.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“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 the Catholic, of Isabella the orthodox--scion of the house of Hapsburg, lord of Austria, Burgundy, the Low Countries, Spain, and Naples, Holy Roman Emperor, ruling over a vaster domain than any save Charlemagne, symbol of the medieval unities, incarnation of a glorious if vanishing heritage; and here before him stood a simple monk, a miner's son, with nothing to sustain him save his own faith in the Word of God. Here the past and the future were met. Some would see at this point the beginning of modern times. The contrast is real enough. Luther himself was sensible of it in a measure. He was well aware that he had not been reared as the son of Pharaoh's daughter, but what overpowered him was not as much that he stood in the presence of the emperor as this, that he and the emperor alike were called upon to answer before Almighty God.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“Spalatin asked Luther what he thought of long engagements. He replied, "Don't put off till tomorrow! By delay Hannibal lost Rome. By delay Esau forfeited his birth right. Christ said, 'Ye shall seek me, and ye shall not find.' Thus Scripture, experience, and all creation testify that the gifts of God must be taking on the wing.”
― Roland Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life Of Martin Luther

“Before the chapter Luther defended the Augustinian view that even outwardly upright acts may be mortal sins in the eyes of God.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“The first love is drunken. When the intoxication wears off, then comes the real marriage love.”
― Roland Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life Of Martin Luther

“I call upon you to renounce your diabolical blasphemy...if you will not, we shall all hold your seat as possessed and oppressed by Satan, the damned seat of Antichrist, in the name of Jesus Christ, whom you persecute."
"And as they excommunicated me for the sacrilege of heresy, so I excommunicate them in the name of the sacred truth of God. Christ will judge whose excommunication will stand. Amen”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“Galatians in 1519 declared that he would have been happier to have waited for a commentary from the pen of Erasmus. The first letter of Luther to Erasmus was adulatory. The prince of the Humanists was called “Our delight and our hope. Who has not learned from him?â€� In the years 1517-1519 Luther was so sensible of his affinity with the Humanists as to adopt their fad of Hellenizing vernacular names. He called himself Eleutherius, the free man. Luther and Erasmus did have much in common. Both insisted that the Church of their day had relapsed into the Judaistic legalism castigated by the apostle Paul.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life Of Martin Luther

“We are sinners and at the same time righteous”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“Unless a man is already a believer and a Christian, his works have no value at all. They are foolish, idle, damnable sins, because when good works are brought forward as grounds for justification, they are no longer good. Understand that we do not reject good works, but praise them highly.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“We are the choice elected few
Let all the rest be damned
There is room enough in hell for you
We won’t have heaven crammed!”
― Roland H. Bainton

“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 the task the better. The milkmaid and the carter of manure are doing a work more pleasing to God to psalm singing of the Carthusian. Luther never tired of defending those callings which for one reason or another were disparaged. The mother was considered lower than the virgin. Luther replied that the mother exhibits the pattern of the love of God, which overcomes sins just as her love overcomes dirty diapers”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“The world and the masses are and always will be unchristian, although they are baptized and nominally Christian. Hence a man who would venture to govern an entire community or the world with the gospel would be like a shepherd who should place in one fold wolves, lions, eagles, and sheep. The sheep would keep the peace, but they would not last long. The world cannot be ruled with a rosary.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life Of Martin Luther

“Who can understand this? Philosophy is unequal to it. Only faith can grasp so high a mystery. This is the foolishness of the cross which is hid from the wise and prudent. Reason must retire. She cannot understand that "God hides his power in weakness, his wisdom in folly, his goodness in severity, his justice in sins, his mercy in anger."
How amazing that God in Christ should do all this; that the Most High, the Most Holy should
be All Loving too; that the ineffable Majesty should stoop to take upon himself our flesh, subject to hunger and cold, death and desperation. We see him lying in the feedbag of a donkey, laboring in a carpenter's shop, dying a derelict under the sins of the world. The gospel is not so much a miracle as a marvel, and every line is suffused with wonder.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“Luther set himself to learn and expound the Scriptures. On August 1, 1513, he commenced his lectures on the book of Psalms. In the fall of 1515 he was lecturing on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. The Epistle to the Galatians was treated throughout 1516-17. These studies proved to be for Luther the Damascus road.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life Of Martin Luther

“In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so doing he exclaimed, 'Either this is not the gospel or we are not Christians.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Erasmus of Christendom

“You are not a bad Christian if you deny the decretal. But if you deny the gospel, you are a heretic. I damn and detest this decretal”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“Good works do not make a man good, but a good man does good works”
― Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

“By dying for a conviction a man proves only that he is sincere, not that he is right.”
― Roland H. Bainton, Erasmus of Christendom