Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

For my holiness, righteousness and purity do not grow from myself, nor do they rest upon myself, but are in Christ alone and come from Him, into whom I am rooted through faith, as the sap passes into the grapes, and I have been made like Him, that He and I are not of one nature and substance, and through Him I bear fruit, which is not mine, but the vine's. Thus Christ and the Christian become one loaf, and one body, and the Christians bear the proper fruit, not Adam's and not their own, but Christ's!—Blessed Martin Luther, Day by Day, p. 330.