As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.
Martin Luther, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Samuel Simon Schmucker (1860). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.215
