Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

It is a miracle above all miracles that the Word of the Apostles has abode in the world, living, creative, and mighty - and that ever and always, wherever it has appeared, the Church has gathered around it, so that it has remained the center of all rays, the Sun from which proceeded all the light and warmth in the world. Popes died, the places of the councils were forsaken, constitutions and polities of the Church passed away, all relations have altered; but the Word has remained in the world, and therefore the Church, the truly Apostolic! And so shall it be! The Church will be united forever through the Word of the Apostles, - and what is more, this Word, subject to none, will be the source of the one universal eternal Church to the end of days. Held and wielded by no one, it will itself hold and carry the Church - and, for her sake, the world! - Wilhelm Löhe, *Three Books* p. 27,28