Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

This sin is something inborn, which is first to be pardoned, then controlled, and finally annihilated by a new birth, by the grace of God, by the work of the Holy Spirit, by the entrance on the glory of heaven, by the mighty power by which a risen Saviour is able to raise these vile bodies and make them like His own body. -- C. P. Krauth, *The Conservative Reformation* p. 406