[We abuse the name of God] when a person forgets the blessings of God and does not thanks Him for them. When a person will not acknowledge that God the Lord imparts to us every good thing in body and soul, but instead ascribes them simply to natural causes or even also to blind luck.—Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis, III:284.
A true Christian is a new creation, a new person who has been inwardly changed, in both heart and mind by the Holy Spirit. This change shows itself chiefly in his attitude toward sin. A true Christian wants to recognize ever more thoroughly and vividly everything is sin according to God’s Word, and he hates and fears even the seemingly smallest sins in word, in deed, and in desire.—C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, p. 589.
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