Herman Sasse > Quotes

“whatever the Roman Church may be otherwise, she wants to be and also is church of the cross, church of the Crucified, whose sacrificial death plays a greater part in its life and thought than in many Protestant Churches.”
― Herman Sasse, Letters to Lutheran Pastors: Volume 1

“The sinner’s justification cannot be demonstrated psychologically.”
― Herman Sasse, Letters to Lutheran Pastors: Volume 1

“It is indeed not we who can preserve the church. Nor was it our ancestors, and it will not be those who come after us. But it has been, is now, and will be the one who said, ‘I am with you always, even to the end of the age”
― Herman Sasse, Letters to Lutheran Pastors: Volume 1

“all of the work on the external structures of the church must flow not from what we wish for ourselves in a church, but from that which through the grace of God is still present in the church, in the true evangelical church, and with the great soberness in which the church orders of the Reformation can be an example for us.”
― Herman Sasse, Letters to Lutheran Pastors: Volume 1