Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Wherever men may be born to God, and divinely nurtured, whether through the whole faith they confess, or in spite of parts of it, there is the Church visible in its widest sense. The Church visible, taking the term in its stricter sense, has its visible tokens, to wit, the official acceptance and confession of the Word in its totality, in its pure and true sense, and the use of the right Sacraments in their divine essentials. -- C. P. Krauth, *A Documentary History of the General Council* p. 370