If someone should ask about my theology, I would seize the Bible (with the dying Aquinas, for I myself am also about to die), and would say with all my heart and in a plain language: `I believe all that is written in this book!' If someone should inquire more closely about my confession of faith, I would show him the Apostle's Creed, for I know nothing shorter, simpler, or pithier, nothing that could sooner bring me to a decision in all controversies and save me the endless labyrinths of disputation. If someone should ask me for a book of prayers, I would point him to the Lord's Prayer. For I
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