Luther on "Good Man" and "Good Works"

"Good works do not make a man good, but a good man does good works."
                -- Martin Luther

The Community of Love

"Luther did not do away with the notion of good works, works of love; he repositioned good works so that they follow necessarily from the working of the Word. Good works do not effect salvation; they are its flowering. The communio sanctorum, the community of love, is thus a necessary result of the Word" (Thomas J. Davis, This Is My Body: The Presence of Christ in Reformation Thought, 58).