"For you do not have a god [or, perhaps, you don't really have God] if you [just] call him God outwardly with your lips...but [only] if you trust him your with heart and look to him for all good, grace and favor...."
"Such faith and confidence can be found only when it springs up and flows from the blood and wounds and death of Christ. If you see in these that God is so kindly disposed toward you that he even gives his own Son for you then your heart in turn must grow sweet and disposed towards God and in this way your confidence must grow out of pure good will and love, God's toward you, and yours toward God." [lightly edited]
-- Martin Luther
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