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  Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

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  The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

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  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 world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

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  A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.

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  Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

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  Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

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  Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

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  I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

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  My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

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  The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.

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  But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.

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  The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

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  The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.

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  How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

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  No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

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  The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.

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  A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

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  The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.

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  Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.

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  Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.

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  While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

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  If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

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  There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

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  May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.

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  The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

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  We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

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  Not to speak is to speak.

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