26 January 2007

Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

What separates us then, who are pilgrims and fight the battle, from those who are at home and in triumph? Very little, indeed! If we could see ourselves in the connection with Zion in which the Apostle represents us, we would hold it a very little thing that we are pilgrims and in the battle. Yes, so much depends on seeing, that if we saw we would neither be pilgrims nor would we be in battle - as the angels , who make pilgrimage and do battle at our side, still behold God and His glory.

Therefore there is an eternal Church Here and There. Here it ever becomes less, There it ever becomes greater, because the pilgrim battling Church is ever being gathered to her people! Oh, that we might belong to this eternal Church! - Wilhelm Löhe, *Three Books on the Church* pp. 12, 13

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