“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous shall live by faith.”

-Romans 1:16-17

“…I began to understand that the righteousness of God is that by which the righteous lives by a gift of God, namely by faith….Here I felt that I was altogether born again and had entered paradise itself through open gates.”

-Martin Luther