Put the Law
Out of Sight

Martin Luther

When in real anguish, a conscience should think of Christ and know absolutely nothing but Christ alone and should then exert its powers to the utmost to put the Law out of sight as far as it possibly can and to embrace nothing but the promise of Christ. To say this is, of course, easy; but to be able to do it in temptation, when the conscience deals with God, is the most difficult of all tasks.

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. 338.