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- To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
- When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
- The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
- After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing,…
- If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course…
- Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
- The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ…
- 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…
- The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life…
- 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.
- Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.
- Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.
- When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word…
- The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
- Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ...
- Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.
- As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the…
- Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
- Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
- The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
- The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor…
- ... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption…
- 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…
- The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with…
- With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put…
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