Michael Edwards

“The fact that they persecute us is due to the Word of God: they claim that they are right and that we are wrong. Then it is our duty to pray and to commend our cause to God, for on earth there is no law or judge to vindicate us. Our persecutors are actually in competition not with us, but with God Himself; it is with His kingdom that they are interfering; they are doing the greatest injury not to us, but to God Himself; and it is His wrath and condemnation that they have incurred. When we see all this, we should have pity on them and pray for them to be rescued from their blindness and their terrible doom. No one can do us any harm without doing it first to a far greater lord, namely, to the High Majesty in heaven Himself.”
― Martin Luther, Luther's Works, Volume 21

“You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation

“Scripture is much more than distant and dusty words spoken by God long ago; Scripture is a direct confrontation and encounter with God in the present moment. God’s speaking is relocated into the present moment in the hearing of God’s Word.”
― Gene Edward Veith Jr., Authentic Christianity: How Lutheran Theology Speaks to a Postmodern World

“Jesus is a better Savior than you are a sinner. Your sins cannot undo His cross. You cannot manage a stain that the blood of Jesus cannot wash. Christ Jesus came to save sinners. Jesus is not the Savior of little sinners, baby sinners. Jesus is the Savior of David and Moses, of Peter and Paul, of you and me. He has taken the enemies of God and redeemed them, redeemed us.”
― Bryan Wolfmueller, A Martyr's Faith in a Faithless World