Gerhard and Walther

We love a tiny steak of the good that emanates from God in creation. We find so lovely the taste of a little droplet of the good that is bestowed upon creation by God to the point that we love it. So why would we not even more so love the bright shining sun and perfect light of God’s perfect good? Why would we not love the inexhaustible and eternally deep Fountain of every good things?—Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis III:99,100.

Thus the means by which the Holy Ghost enters the heart of man is not by the frightening preaching from the smoking and quaking Sinai but by the preaching of grace about Golgotha and the great deeds of God. It is not the damning Law of our works, but by the sweet and comforting Gospel of free grace in Christ.—C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, p. 438.