“A man does not live for himself alone in the mortal body to work for it alone, but he lives also for all men on earth; rather, he lives only for others and not for himself. To this end he brings his body into subjection that he may the more sincerely and freely serve others…He cannot ever in this life be idle and without works toward his neighbor.”
Martin Luther (1483-1546) excerpt from “The Freedom of a Christian” (1520) in Martin Luther: Selections from His Writing, ed. John Dillenberger (New York: Random House, 1962) 73.