Walther Quote

"What constitutes a person a Christian is this believing knowledge, that he is, in the first place, a miserable, accursed sinner, who would be lost forever if Christ had not died for him; and that, in the second place, Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father in eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary, has redeemed him, a lost and condemned creature, purchased and won him from all sins, from death, and the power of the devil. A Christian must regard himself as a lost and condemned sinner, or all his talk about faith is vain and worthless."
- C.F.W. Walther
(The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel)