Quotes about Truth

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.

Returning to the subject which we had begun, I think it is made clear by these considerations that it is not sufficient, nor a Christian course, to preach the works, life, and words of Christ in a historic manner, as facts which it suffices to know as an example how to frame our life, as do those who are now held the best preachers

it is completely contrary to the nature of sin to confess that one has sinned.

Let us then consider it certain and firmly established that the soul can do without anything except the Word of God and that where the Word of God is missing there is no help at all for the soul.

No one can worthily speak or hear any Scripture, unless he is touched in conformity with it, so that he feels inwardly what he hears and says outwardly and says, "Ah, this is true!