Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

For grace is not grace at all, unless it be altogether gratuitous. And so I look not upon my works for any ground of salvation; what is wrong in them God will correct; what is lacking He will graciously supply; what is sinful He will mercifully blot out. What He will not impute to me is just as if it had never been. And hence only as my salvation is of God is it sure and unchangeable.—Johann Gerhard, Sacred Meditation XLII