For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that there is nothing which is able to pacify Him but this inestimable price, even the death and the blood of the Son of God, one drop of which is more precious than the whole world.
Martin LutherChrist designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.
Martin Luther