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The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.
My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.
The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.
Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm.
A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.
Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.
It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.
Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.
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.
What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.
Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.
Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.
We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.
Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.
We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.
Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.
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
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.
In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.
So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.