Skip to content

In their enmity to the truth, they set up another religion, an idol-worship, wherein the creature, with its works and its fleshly righteousness, has something to boast of. This they do in order to render vain the work of Christ, and to destroy the work of the Spirit. They do it also that they may have a wide mantle under which to cloak their crimes.

— Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge Sermons on the First Epistle of Peter (1855)

Another quote →

More quotes by Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge

Every thing that is around us strives to draw us away from the true faith.

Sermons on the First Epistle of Peter (1855)

We reject the pharisaical sanctity, which is but a covering of shame, under which sin has free play.

Sermons on the First Epistle of Peter (1855)

They are separated from the mass, set apart that they may be a peculiar people to the Lord.

Sermons on the First Epistle of Peter (1855)

The world and the devil fight against us believers, because we will not wear their mask of hypocrisy, under which gross wickedness may be committed.

Sermons on the First Epistle of Peter (1855)

His walk and conversation will then be very different from his former course of life, when he willingly served sin and Satan, indulged his evil desires, and walked after the course of this world.

Sermons on the First Epistle of Peter (1855)

All Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.