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Lord, whatsoever this day may bring, Thy name be praised. Be gracious unto me and help me. Grant me strength to bear whatsoever Thou dost send, And le...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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If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

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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 church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the world. Otherwise the church becomes a "religious soc...more

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As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from above, ...more

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Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and authority of the commission Christ ha...more

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Reproof is unavoidable. God’s Word demands it when a brother falls into open sin. The practice of discipline in the congregation begins in the smalles...more

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In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only he who gives thanks for little things receives th...more

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Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a squire from his country-house.Who am I? They o...more

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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...more