The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
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
Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world
Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.
Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.
God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy.
Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share of suffering and rejection. But each has a different share: some God deems worthy of the highest form of suffering, and gives them the grace of martyrdom, while others he does not allow to be tempted above that which they are able to bear. But it is the one and the same cross in every case.
It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.
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 perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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
The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.
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