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"Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us."
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"Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself."
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"Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility."
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"Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?"
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"A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent"
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"One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons."
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"Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them."
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"Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom."
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"The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind"
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"If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all."
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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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"Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free"
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"We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions."
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"So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus."
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"The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ."
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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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"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."
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"Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ."
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"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
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"The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them."
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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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"We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God."
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"Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor."
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"The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others."
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"Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace."
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"It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love."
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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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"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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"Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ."
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"Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable."
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"Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer."
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"Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words."
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"It is only because he became like us that we can become like him."
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"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 becomes rich."
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"Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ."
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"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."
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"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."

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"There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler."
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"A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol"
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"We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God."
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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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"When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh."
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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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"By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are."
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"Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him."
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"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."
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"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."
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"Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you."
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