"God helps those who help themselves"?

"These schoolmen teach that if a man does what he can, God will give him His grace. ... it is wrong to apply this saying to the spiritual kingdom, because a man can do nothing else but sin; for he is "sold under sin". ... So they have done wickedly in applying this saying to the Church. For the kingdom of man's reason and the spiritual kingdom must be kept seperate and far asunder. ....
a man drowned in sin and iniquity, and a bondslave of Satan, has will, reason and power to execute the office of magistrate, govern a family, guide a ship, build a house, and do such things as are subject to man: for these qualities are not taken from him. In the corporal realm therefore we do not deny this sentance; but if they are wrested to apply to the spiritual kingdom, I utterly deny them, for there we are clean overwhelmed and drowned in sin. Whatever is in our will is evil; whatever is in our understanding is error. ....
"the Son of God loved me, and gave Himself for me," are the mighty thunderings and lightnings from heaven against ... all the works thereof. ...
For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that there is nothing which is able to pacify Him but this inestimable price, even the death and the blood of the Son of God, one drop of which is more precious than the whole world." -Martin Luther

This man loved the truth and grace of Christ! He is a fine teacher, who the Lord preserved for us to glean from.
I praise and thank God for such teachers of the Scriptures, who made a stand for the Word.