Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

It is one of the greatest sins and calamities of the Church of our day that there is widespread an utter carelessness in regard to doctrine, or a fixed aversion to it; in some a contempt for it, in many an ignorance or an ignoring of it. Men sometimes array the Gospel against itself by urging they "want the Gospel," they "don't want doctrine;" as if there could be any real Gospel which is not doctrine, or any Gospel in its totality, which does not embrace all the doctrine of the Gospel. It is as if they said: "We want nourishment; we don't want food;" "We want warmth; not none of your fuel and clothes for us." - C. P. Krauth, *Documentary History of the General Council* p. 362