“Ambition is the rankest poison in the church, when it possesses preachers. It is a consuming fire. The Holy Scripture is given to destroy the desires of the flesh; therefore we must not therein seek after temporal honour. I much marvel for what cause people are proud and haughty; we are born in sin, and every moment in danger of death. Are we proud of our scabs and scalds? we, who are altogether an unclean thing.”
-Martin Luther, The Tabletalk of Martin Luther (Ross-shire: Christian Focus, 2003), 278.
