Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Our fathers clearly saw and sharply drew the distinction between God's foundation and man's superstructure, between the essential and the accidental, between faith and opinion, between religion and speculative theology, and, with all these distinctions before them, declared that consent in the doctrine of the Gospel and the right administration of the Sacraments is the only basis of the unity of the Church. --Krauth, *The Conservative Reformation* p. 182