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- Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense…
- Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are…
- Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand,…
- No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of heaven, no one has heard about his realm of the resurrected, and not been…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- ...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…
- Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ...
- God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....
- 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…
- To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand…
- Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man…
- We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment…
- And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from…
- How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
- The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
- In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.
- It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
- Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.
- How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
- It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us…
- Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the…
- It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body…
- God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real…
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- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
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