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- Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
- When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
- The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is…
- 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…
- 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…
- Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.
- ...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a…
- 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…
- 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…
- Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
- If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait…
- We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
- I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns…
- [God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own…
- Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound…
- No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying…
- A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate…
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