Writings

God is like an eternal, unfailing fountain, which, the more it pours forth and overflows, the more it continues to give.

It is the highest art to know that our sacrament does not depend upon our worthiness.

We pray that what must be done anyway without us may also be done in us.

How can water, eating and drinking do such great things?

Such is nature that we all begrudge another’s having as much as we have.

Time and paper would fail me if I were to recount all the blessings that flow from God’s Word.

It seems to me that we shall have our hands full to keep these commandments.

The trust and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol.

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The distinctive contours of Luther’s theology had already taken shape before the indulgence controversy broke out, as this 1516 letter to a fellow Augustinian friar… Read More »Letter to George Spenlein