Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

The Holy Spirit renews the face of the earth not only with the annual renewal with which all things begin to turn green and produce foliage in the springtime after they had become dead during the winter but also with a daily renewal by which other things are born everyday to preserve the species. These newborn things again take the place of those that have been subjected to death and destruction. He renews the face of the earth not only externally and corporeally in the way just explained, but also internally and spiritually because He illumines, regenerates, and renews the hearts of men; takes them out of the darkness of error and ignorance; and places them in the light of the saving knowledge of God. -- Blessed Johann Gerhard, *On the Trinity* par. 132