Gerhard and Walther

We are not to look only upon one of the particular benefits that God the Lord has shown us personally, but also upon what our neighbor has received from God and thank God for those benefits and not just those that God has shown us. For since we are obligated to pray for the neighbor, so also we are obligated to thank God when He hears us and helps the neighbor out of his need.—Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis, III:376

Wo to Christian preachers if they have nothing to preach but the Law! Their hearers will become hungry by it, but not satisfied. They will be startled out of their security, but they will never come to peace.—C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, p. 678