" Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, and have no assurance of your life. In the morning you shall say: ‘Would it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say: ‘Would it were morning!’” I have not found a place which sets forth the misery of a bad conscience so clearly, with such fitting and appropriate words and expressions. "

― Martin Luther , Lectures on Deuteronomy