The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?
Martin LutherEither sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.
Martin LutherAll laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.
Martin LutherThe spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more, that we let God alone work in us and that we do nothing of our own with all our powers.
Martin Luther