Quotes about Truth

For this ought, above all things, to be received, and most firmly settled among Christians: - that the Holy Scriptures are a spiritual light by far more clear than the sun itself, especially in those things which pertain unto salvation or necessity.

Thus it has come about that out of the Word they have made Law, out of faith works, out of truth a show; and therefore they have finally been forced to employ the sword.

He does not say: "There dare not be an evil rumor," but rather: "There will be evil rumors. The world will revile him and hold him to be a wicked scoundrel, a heretic, and a deceiver.

Nothing is more familiar or characteristic among Christians than assertion. Take away assertions, and you take away Christianity.

And if what they claim were true, why have Holy Scripture at all? Of what use is Scripture?

When the article of justification is lost, nothing remains except error, hypocrisy, godlessness, and idolatry.

The truth is, I am all sin.

There will not be, nor arise in us, the righteousness of God, unless our own righteousness falls and perishes utterly. We do not rise unless we who are standing badly have first fallen. Thus altogether the being, holiness, truth, goodness, life of God, etc., are not in us, unless in the presence of God we first become nothing, profane, lying, evil, dead. Otherwise the righteousness of God would be mocked, and Christ would have died in vain.

Therefore Augustine was right when he said: "The external works of the Godhead are indivisible.

For He has His strength in His mouth, not a sword in His hand.

For if the light of the Word is destroyed, then all will again be wrapped in the horrible darkness of the Turk or the pope or other heretics. This

21. A theologian of glory calls evil good and good evil. A theologian of the cross calls a thing what it actually is.