chooses examples of love; that is, says Holl, always examples of “Christian morality.” This interpretation is incorrect. The real point in the Luther passage quoted above is the contrast between purpose and practice. “All stations are intended to serve others. But we go now this way and now that.”14 Here we come across what for Luther is the decisive contrast between God’s self-giving love and man’s egocentricity. The human being is self-willed, desiring that whatever happens shall be to his own