Quotes: Luther on Human Values

"For indeed there are fair and glorious examples in heathendom, of many
virtues, where men were temperate, chaste, bountiful, loved their country,
parents, wives and children, were men of courage, and behaved themselves
magnanimously and generously.
But the ideas of mankind concerning God, the true worship of God, and
Gods will, are altogether stark blindness and darkness.
For the light of human wisdom, reason and understanding which alone is
given to man comprehends only what is good and profitable outwardly. And
although we see that the heathen philosophers now and then discoursed concerning
God and his wisdom pertinently, so that some have made prophets of Socrates, of
Xenophon, of Plato etc. , yet, that because they had not known that God sent his
Son to save sinners, such fair, glorious and wise-seeming speeches are nothing
but mere blindness and ignorance".

-Martin Luther