Gerhard and Walther

What good thing will He, who loved us while we were yet His enemies (Rom v. 8), disdaining not to take our human nature into the very closest union with His divinity, withhold from those who are partakers of with Him of the same flesh?—Johann Gerhard, Sacred Meditation XV

There are few people who want never to convert, but most of them anticipate doing so tomorrow, or perhaps next year, or after this or that upcoming event in their life has passed… Whoever knows that, in his heart, he is still not right with God cannot afford to wait even a single day to address this matter.—C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, pp. 810, 11.