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- Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's…
- I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if…
- Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who…
- In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger…
- The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in…
- Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing…
- I can never know beforehand how God’s image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely…
- ...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to…
- Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem…
- All are called to be what in the reality of God they already are.
- Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering,…
- After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.
- The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the…
- Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist…
- And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from…
- To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more…
- Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who…
- There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become…
- May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
- We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of…
- The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
- My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
- When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against…
- In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don’t…
- It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion or inner…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle