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Here I stand; I can do no other.

Here I stand; I can do no other.

Martin Luther
Choices, Can Do, I Can
Speech at Diet of Worms, 18 Apr. 1521.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

Martin Luther
Hands, Choices, Wish
Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.350, Fortress Press

what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

Martin Luther
Mean, Choices, Rooms
Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.323, Fortress Press

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

Martin Luther
Evil, Choices, Free Will

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

Martin Luther
Color, Choices, Simplicity

You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

Martin Luther
Choices, Scripture, Type
Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy.

Martin Luther
Choices, Needs, Spirit

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