The Amazing Art
of Faith

It is surely an art above all the arts of men, aye, the most extraordinary thing on earth, that a man has the grace honestly to recognize himself as a sinner and yet turn about, put the wrath of God out of sight, and be able to grasp nothing but grace.

Source: Quoted in Ewald M. Plass, What Luther Says, A Practical In-home Theology for the Active Christian. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House. 1959 Edition, 10th Printing (1994), p.