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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

"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

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

"To say "Jesus is king" is true if the word "king" is wholly defined by the person of Jesus; it is false and blasphemous if Jesus is made instrumental to a definition of kingship derived from elsewhere. Jesus has come "to proclaim liberty to the captives," but he will not become the mascot for a people's movement of liberation." 76