Nathanael Miller’s Reviews > On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, 1518 > Status Update

“Works performed on the premise that one was going to become righteous thereby are not good to begin with. They defend us against the goodness of God. They are done not for the neighbor but for the glory of the self. Works that can be called good, however, flow from righteousness as from an overflowing vessel, not into it as an empty one waiting to be filled.”