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- 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…
- I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if…
- Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.
- 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…
- God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us,…
- ...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…
- What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.
- 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…
- Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering,…
- Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.
- God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises...
- 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…
- How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in…
- God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame.…
- Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.
- And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from…
- We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.
- 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 cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with…
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