Quotes from Martin E. Marty

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

Getting closer to home, is it a fully satisfying repentance if we only deal with the past, which cannot be changed? "Alas, what did I do?" I don't think so. Believers get closer to repentance instead by asking, "Alas, what kind of person was I that I could do that?

In the Enlightenment-type movements, leaders saw human reason progressively replacing the earlier appeal to the Bible or churchly authority.

Of course, the Catholics also believed in grace and faith. But they disagreed on how grace and faith were effected and experienced and what part the church to which they all belonged was to play.