“But battle against that feeling, and say, ‘Even though I feel myself completely crushed and swallowed by sin and see God as a hostile and wrathful judge, yet in fact this is not true; it is only my feeling that thinks so. The Word of God, which I ought to follow in these anxieties rather than my own consciousness, teaches much differently, namely, that ‘God is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit’ (Ps. 34:18), and that ‘He does not despise a broken and contrite heart’ (Ps. 51:17).”
~ Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians: Chapters 1-4 (as quoted in Schreiner, Galatians)
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