It is hard to think like this, and it is even harder to believe—as we must believe—that it is this attitude alone which can overcome the world, that only through repentance can the world be renewed. So isn’t it fruitless to think this way? Does it make anything better? Yes, it does; it makes everything better. How so? Because through our repentance, God’s grace can find its way back to us; because in our repentance no human being can be in the right, but rather God alone is right in all God’s ways,