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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 temptation of Christ was harder, unspeakably harder, than the temptation of Adam; for Adam carried nothing in himself which could have given the t...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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God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God.

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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

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As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pri...more

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We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience ha...more

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Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take ...more

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In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don’t insist on yo...more

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We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God’s will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is yo...more

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It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of J...more

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Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers ...more

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God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me to dominate and control, but in order that I migh...more

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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.