Elizabeth

“You will suffer slander on account of your wisdom; you will experience ingratitude; people will forget your acts of kindness; they will disparage your best advice and will return evil for good.”
― Martin Luther, Luther's Works, Vol. 15: Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and the Last Words of David (Luther's Works

“You must die if you would live under this King. You must bear the cross and the hatred of the whole world. You must not flee from ignominy, poverty, hunger, and thirst, in other words, all the evil that floods the earth.”
― Martin Luther, Luther's Works, Vol. 14: Selected Psalms III

“But he also arranges the words in this manner that we may learn for our consolation and exhortation that we never suffer injustice without God suffering it first and more than we and that God the Father’s solicitude for us is so great that He feels our suffering before we do and bears it with greater resentment than we ourselves. Therefore we should refrain from a feeling of revenge but should rather have compassion on those whom we see dashing themselves to their destruction against a majesty so great; for not only are they unable to do any harm, but they destroy themselves horribly.”
― Martin Luther, Luther's Works, Vol. 14: Selected Psalms III

“Therefore the man whom the prophet here calls blessed is unanimously declared by the world to be the most wretched of all, as Isaiah looked upon Christ, the Head and Model of the blessed, whom he calls the lowest of all (Is. 53:3).”
― Martin Luther, Luther's Works, Vol. 14: Selected Psalms III