Grace, Independent of Feeling

It is no small comfort to know that grace has not been taken away but is truly constant and unchangeable. Nevertheless, our feeling and awareness of grace are removed for a while, and fear and trembling set in, dejecting and disturbing the soul. The effect is that a man turns impatient and imagines that the wrath of God is unbearable and so turns God into a devil.

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. 512.