Status Updates From The Certainty of Faith

"The faith of the sixteenth century passed over into the orthodoxy of the seventeenth century. People no longer confessed their beliefs, but only believed their confessions." 41

“Faith by which the believer embraces the gospel excludes all coercion. No one believes against their will; faith is an act of the intellect, which is moved to the recognition of the truth of the gospel by the will.” (82)

"Truth is always accompanied by certainty, but certainty is still no proof of truth." 32

"What we wish, we gladly believe." 32

"Apologetics is the fruit, never the root, of faith." 19

"The system of our thought is often nothing more than the history of our heart." 20

"Truth is the agreement between the thought and reality." 16

"Certainty is the complete rest of the mind in an object of knowledge." 16