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What a living, creative, active powerful thing is faith! It is impossible that faith ever stop doing good. Faith doesn't ask whether good works are to be done, but, before it is asked, it has done them.

Martin Luther Preface to the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans (1522)

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  1. Luther rejects bare “I believe” talk and describes faith as God's work that inevitably bears fruit.

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