To Know Our Nothingness

When God's glory, honor, praise, will and love rule in us with might, then ego, I-ness and everyone's self or self-absorption must wither and become nothing. This is the very characteristic and nature of faith—to see God's glory and our shame, God's virtue and strength and our wickedness and weakness, God's something and being. And, on the other side, to know our nothingness. Therefore, it is impossible for us to believe God and remain unyielded; of necessity, then, God's honor must be directed to God, and not to ourselves.

—Andreas Karlstadt