This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified. Martin Luther
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The quote means that life is not a matter of right and wrong but of growth. It is not a matter of good and bad but instead what the author calls “growth in righteousness” or character building. This quote is one of many which provides an explanation for the Christian concept of salvation, which teaches that the power of God is not to condemn us but to change us into more godly people.

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