LUTHER ON NEIGHBORS
Martin Luther perceives the hypocrisy in some of our visions of grandeur: There are those of us… who think to ourselves, “If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed his linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!” Yes, we would. We say that because we know how great Christ is, but if we had been there at that time, we would have done no better than the people of Bethlehem… Why don’t we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor. By Martin Luther, taken from 12,000 Religious Quotations, by Frank Mead, published by Baker Books, pg. 72
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