All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.
Martin LutherGod works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.
Martin LutherGod does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.
Martin LutherAll which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear; how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.
Martin Luther