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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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Over the years I have written many a letter for the wedding of one of the brothers and preached many a wedding sermon. The chief characteristic of suc...more

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Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the...more

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Gideon conquers, the church conquers, we conquer, because faith conquers. But the victory belongs not to Gideon, the church, or ourselves, but to God....more

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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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...do we realize that this cheap grace has turned back upon us like a boomerang? The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of ...more

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Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to t...more

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Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to his call: First obey, do the external works, let go...more

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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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Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to ...more

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It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell...more

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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...more

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Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet ...more

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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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The world is not divided between Christ and the devil; it is completely the world of Christ, whether it recognizes this or not. As this reality in Chr...more