Abba, Father

Abba.... this is indeed a very short word, but it includes everything. Not the lips,
but the feelings are speaking here, as though one were to say: “Even
though I am surrounded by anxieties and seem to be deserted and
banished from Thy presence, nevertheless I am a child of God on account
of Christ; I am beloved on account of the Beloved.” Therefore the term
“abba,” when spoken meaningfully in the heart, is an eloquence that
Demosthenes, Cicero, and the most eloquent men there have ever been in
the world cannot attain. For this is a matter that is expressed, not in words
but in sighs, which are not articulated in all the words of all the orators;
for they are too deep for words. --Martin Luther