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“Jesus, if he is for us what he can and should be, does not cut us off from others but, precisely by being there at the center of our confession of faith in God, opens our minds and hearts to others...”

“God is not interested in outward acts of personal moral uprightness but in the motives for our allegedly good behaviour and - in one word - our capacity to love others: which means what it says: to *love* them, not merely condescend to them; and to love *them*, rather than just loving ourselves for seeming to love them.”

- And that is the road that I have kept travelling for a very long time now. I’m still a long way from the end of it. But it has never become boring, and I’ve never quite succumbed to the temptation to think that it leads nowhere.”

“... I had begun to find out something new about that ‘strange, new world within the Bible,’ as Karl Barth called it. I had begun to discover a road... that went beyond good and evil, beyond morality, beyond dogmas and neat divisions of humanity into sheep and goats. -

“I think we should never underestimate the capacity of the human mind, including the mind of the child and adolescent, to sense contradiction. It is probably the greatest hope of the race, humanly speaking.”