The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to it that they are added unto us. If we follow Jesus and look only to His righteousness, we are in his hands and under the protection of Him and His Father. And if we are in communion with the Father, nought can harm us. God will help us in the hour of need, and He knows our needs.

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.