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This is a quote from Luther on how we are to treat each other with respect to liturgical rites. It is taken from his 1523 Latin Mass (American Edition of Luther’s Works, 53.31).
“. . . even if different people make use of different rites, let no one judge or despise the other, but every man be fully persuaded in his own mind [Rom. 14:5]. Let us feel and think the same, even though we may act differently. And let us approve each other’s rites lest schisms and sects should result from this diversity in rites—as has happened in the Roman church. For external rites, even though we cannot do without them—just as we cannot do without food or drink—do not commend us to God, even as food does not commend us to him [I Cor. 8:8]. Faith and love commend us to God.”
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