“Ah, we poor people, to be so cold and sluggish in the face of the great joy that has clearly been prepared for us! This great benefaction exceeds by far all the other works o creation; and yet our faith in it is found to be so weak, although it is preached and sung to us by angels, who are heavenly theologians and who were so glad for our sake! their song is very, very beautiful and describes the entire Christian religion. For giving glory to God in the highest heaven is the supreme worship. This they wish and bring us in Christ.”

Martin Luther. from his “Table Talk,” Weimar edition 4, No. 4201; What Luther Says compiled by Ewald M. Plass, St. Louis: Concordia, 1986, #459.