God draws the elect through His Word and Sacraments...

Furthermore, the declaration in John 6:44 is right and true, "No one can come to Me unless the Father who send Me draws him."  However, the Father will not do this without means, but has ordained His Word and Sacraments for this purpose as ordinary means and instruments.  It is not the will of the Father or of the Son that a person should not hear or should despite the preaching of His Word and with for the drawing of the Father without the Word and sacraments.  For the Father draws indeed by the power of His Holy Spirit.  However, He works according to His usual way.  He works by the hearing of His holy, divine Word, as with a net, by which the elect are plucked from the devil's jaws.  Every poor sinner should therefore attend to the Word, hear it attentively, and not doubt the Father's drawing.  For the Holy Spirit will be with His world in His power, and will work by it.  That is the Father's drawing.
~FSD, XI, 76-77

Faith is conceived in the terrors of conscience...

In fact, we also say this:  Our love for God, even though it is small, cannot possibly be separated from faith.  For we come to the Father through Christ.  When the forgiveness of sins has been received, then we are truly certain that we have a God, that is, that God care for us.  We call upon Him, we give Him thanks, we fear Him, we love Him as 1 John 4:19 teaches, "We loved because He first loved us."  In other words, we love Him because He gave His Son for us and forgave us our sins.  In this way John shows that faith comes first and love follows.  Likewise, the faith of which we speak exists in repentance. I mean that faith is conceived in the terrors of conscience, which feels God's wrath against our sins and seeks forgiveness of sins, seeks to be freed from sin. In such terrors and other troubles, this faith ought to grow and be strengthened.
~BOC, AP, V (III), 20-21

Every mote of our existence is from God...

For although the whole world should work together, it could not add an hour to our life or give us a single grain from the earth.
~BOC, LC, I, 166

God overwhelms us with unspeakable, eternal treasures...

From here we see how the Father has given Himself to us, together with all creatures, and has most richly provided for us in this life.  We see that He has overwhelmed us with unspeakable, eternal treasures by His Son and the Holy Spirit, as we shall hear.
~BOC, LC, II, 24

God faithfully provides all that His creation needs...

You see, in this way, God wishes to show us how He cares for us in all our need and faithfully provides for us also for our earthly support. He abundantly grants and preserves these things, even for the wicked and rogues. Yet, He wishes that we pray for these goods in order that we may recognize that we receive them from His hand and may feel His fatherly goodness toward us in them.
~BOC, LC, III, 82-83

The Holy Spirit carries on His Work without ceasing...

God's grace is secured through Christ, and sanctification is wrought by the Holy Spirit through God's Word in the unity of the Christian Church. Yet because of our flesh, which we bear with us, we are never without sin.   Everything, therefore, in the Christian Church is ordered toward this goal: we shall daily receive in the Church nothing but the forgiveness of sin through the Word and signs, to comfort and encourage our consciences as long as we live here. So even though we have sins, the grace of the Holy Spirit does not allow them to harm us.  For we are in the Christian Church, where there is nothing but continuous, uninterrupted forgiveness of sins....For we have already received creation. Redemption, too, is finished. But the Holy Spirit carries on His work without ceasing to the Last Day.
~BOC, LC,  II, 54-55,61

How we know the things of God...

He has created us for this very reason, that He might redeem and sanctify us.  In addition to giving and imparting to us everything in heaven and upon earth, He has even given to us His Son and the Holy Spirit, who brings us to Himself.  For we could never grasp the knowledge of the Father's grace and favor except through the Lord Christ.  Jesus is a mirror of the fatherly heart outside of whom we see nothing but an angry and terrible Judge.  But we couldn't know anything about Christ either, unless it has been revealed by the Holy Spirit.
~BOC, LC, II, 64-65

The world has struggled with all diligence to understand God, but has not...

The whole world with all diligence has struggled to figure out what God is, and what He has in mind and does. Yet the world has never been able to grasp the knowledge and understanding of any of these things. But here we have everything in richest measure. For in all three articles God has revealed Himself and opened the deepest abyss of His fatherly heart and His pure, inexpressible love.
~BOC, LC, II, 63

The doctrine of the Creed brings pure grace...

From this you see that the Creed is a doctrine quite different from the Ten Commandments. For the Commandments teach what we ought to do. But the Creed tells us what God does for us and gives to us. Furthermore, apart from this the Ten Commandments are written in all people's hearts. However, no human wisdom can understand the Creed. It must be taught by the Holy Spirit alone. The teaching of the Ten Commandments, therefore, makes no Christian.  For God's wrath and displeasure abide upon still, because we cannot keep what God demands of us.  But the Creed brings pure grace and makes us godly and acceptable to God. For by this knowledge we have love and delight in God's commandments.  Here we see that God gives Himself to us completely.  He gives all that He has and is able to do in order to aid and direct us in keeping the Ten Commandments.  The Father gives all creatures.  The Son gives His entire work.  And the Holy Spirit bestows all His gifts.
~BOC, LC, III, 67-69

God the Father daily preserves and defends us...

Further, we also confess that God the Father has not only given us all that we have and see before our eyes, but He daily preserves and defends us against all evil and misfortune. He directs all sorts of danger and disaster away from us. We confess that He does all this out of pure love and goodness, without our merit, as a kind Father.
~BOC, LC, II, 17