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"If I ask "Why has he called me and not another?" I have no clue to the answer. But if I ask "For what purpose has he called me?" the answer is clear. It is in order that I may be a witness." 133

"Faced with the fact that I am a believer in Jesus, while other better and more devout than I are not, I can only fall back upon the fact that I have been called by one stronger than I who has so ordered my goings that I can find life only in Jesus." 133

"There is no way by which Jesus can be accommodated within any theology which has its starting point elsewhere." 132

"Even though hypocrisy was not uncommon, and many iniquities were perpetrated in secret, that hypocrisy still represented error's tribute to truth and sin's tribute to virtue." 95

"After all, by its very nature and essence, faith can rest in nowhere other than a word of God, in a promise of the Lord." 92.

"The Church is not sent into the world to explain the world but to change it " 120

"The only thing which can "make sense" of a dark world is the coming of light, and the light does not come from below but from above, not from the past but from the future." 120

"An unbeliever is never certain of his case." 81

"The gospel of Christ does not first address itself to human beings as rational, but as moral creatures." 67

"The Reformation took the position that revelation is not just a narrative of past events but a word from God to us, and, accordingly, that faith is not a bare acceptance of the truth of historical records but the trust of the heart in the gospel of salvation." 66

"The man who is not able to receive his freedom as a gift of pure grace is not yet free." 109-110

"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

"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