Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

The Word of the Apostles ever has been the principle of the unity of the Church, and will be to the end of days. In the first age, when the Oneness of the Church shone forth brighter than at any time since, and was remarked by all the heathen, and was admired and feared, no oecumenical bishop, no temporal overshepherd held her together - no living man was her center; nor was it the universal dominion of one certain form of government, which produced the Church's unity; but the common Truth of the Apostles, known by all and acknowledged by all, made out of Jews and Gentiles, out of the most diverse men, one single universal Church of God on earth. - Wilhelm Loehe *Three Books* p. 25