Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

But you might say:  so where are these wide opened gates of heaven which we must enter?  That's easy.  Where Baptism is administered, where the preaching of the Gospel resounds, where sinners are absolved, where the holy meal of reconciliation is held - there, there heaven is opened and those, those are the altogether wide open gates of heaven. -- C. F. W. Walther, Treasury of C. F. W. Walther, Vol. 1, p. 59.