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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.
As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.
In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.
Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.
Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.
The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.
No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.
grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.
If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.
Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.
Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ.
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.
Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.
Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.