The Great Martin Luther
“A good tree needs no instruction or law to bear good fruit; its nature causes it to bear according to its kind without any law or instruction. I would take to be quite a fool any man who would make a book full of laws and statutes for an apple tree telling it how to bear apples and not thorns, when the tree is able by its own nature to do this better than the man with all his books can describe and demand. Just so, by the Spirit and by faith all Christians are so thoroughly disposed and conditioned in their very nature that they do right and keep the law better than one can teach them with all manner of statutes; so far as they themselves are concerned, no statutes or laws are needed.”
- Martin Luther
- Martin Luther
posted by David Browder at 3/01/2009 01:45:00 PM
2 Comments:
In 25 years of lawyering, I have never had a client tell me that he wanted to be a good citizen, and could I please tell him what the law was so he could obey it.
Shame on you, Miguel, for discriminating in your practice against politicians, any of whom would be glad to tell you that very thing!
Waltero
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