Praise Grace
Exceedingly

The glory of grace is to be highly praised, and it cannot be praised highly enough. Therefore Paul exclaims: "Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift!" (2 Cor. 9:15). Therefore give no heed to the cold and idle hissing of the sophists about good works that are without sin, about faith infused, about faith acquired, about a will that is free; dreams these are and jokes in comparison with this serious matter of grace.... Make no mistake about it, the greatness of the protection [which we have in Christ] sufficiently indicates how great sin is.

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. 612