Quote of the Week- August Pieper

When things have to a great extent gone so far, that the knowledge of God has become insignificant, faith has become a reed shaken in the wind, love has become cold, the whole life of faith has become weak and feeble, whereas satisfaction with the world and the cares for the things of this life have seized hold of the hearts of the Christians, particularly of the angels, i.e., the shepherds of the congregations, when the spiritual life, the spiritual character threatens to become extinct, then the disintegration of the Church has begun; then a reconstruction, that is, a regeneration, a renewal of spiritual life must set in, or it will perish in the abyss of spiritual death.
(August Pieper, The True Reconstruction of the Church, p.3)