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- Politics are not the task of a Christian.
- It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God,…
- 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…
- Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.
- Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.
- We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only…
- Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
- The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.
- It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
- A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.
- The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
- God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will…
- A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
- Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The…
- 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.
- Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into…
- Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they…
- 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 her true self only when she exists for humanity.
- 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. Thus…
- 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.
- Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when we should be…
- Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.
- Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
- The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
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