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- We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they…
- But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more…
- Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.
- Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem…
- The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
- The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly…
- After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.
- Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?
- 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 more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him.
- Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is a brief, single…
- In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so…
- 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…
- In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life…
- If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large…
- Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our…
- Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal…
- Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle