Large Catechism: Introduction to the Lord’s Prayer, 2 of 2
All our shelter and protection rest in prayer alone.
All our shelter and protection rest in prayer alone.
Marriage is not an exceptional estate, but the most universal and noblest.
Since in this prayer we call God our Father, it is our duty always to deport and conduct ourselves as godly children.
If we look at mankind in all its conditions, it is nothing but a vast, wide stable full of great thieves.
Honor and good name are easily taken away, but not easily restored.
How can water, eating and drinking do such great things?
Such is nature that we all begrudge another’s having as much as we have.
Time and paper would fail me if I were to recount all the blessings that flow from God’s Word.
It seems to me that we shall have our hands full to keep these commandments.
The trust and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol.