quote for the day

Compliments of Friend Marshall Massey, who left it in the comments here.

"No man can rightly know God, or understand the word of God, unless he receives it directly from the Holy Spirit; neither can any one can receive it from the Holy Spirit, except that he finds it by experience in himself. And in this experience the Holy Spirit teaches, as in his proper school: out of which school nothing is taught but mere talk." (Luther, commenting on the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55); quoted by Robert Barclay in his Apology, Prop. II §2.)