Gerhard and Walther

For anyone who fears God will not go forth and sin with reckless abandon. Instead, he will fear the wrath of God with which sinners are threatened, and he will, with sincere repentance, abstain from evil.—Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis III:81

As we pass through this world like strangers and pilgrims, pausing here and there to rest and refresh ourselves, but soon thereafter hastening on toward our heavenly goal. Our entire life must be, as Luther expressed it, an eternal Lord’s Prayer in which our principal desire is for God to deliver us from evil.—C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, p. 447.