Luther and Lewis

For it is a great thing, which I must believe and grasp with my heart, namely, that all my sins are forgiven and that through this faith I am justified before God. That is a wonderful justice and very different from the justice of judges and of the wise and prudent people of the world.—Martin Luther, Sermon for St. Matthew's Day.

The gnat-like cloud of petty anxieties and decisions about the conduct of the next hour have interfered with my prayers more often than any passion or appetite whatever. The great, permanent temptation of marriage is not sensuality but [quite bluntly] to avarice.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 167.