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- God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
- A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
- Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and…
- If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray…
- Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
- We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because…
- Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.
- The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to…
- 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…
- If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbor, for that is where God comes to you.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and…
- When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me
- There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply…
- 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…
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- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
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