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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

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Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of no...more

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees b...more

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People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Chri...more

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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

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He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.

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The profundity of Christianity is that Christ is both our redeemer and our judge, not that one is our redeemer and another is our judge, for then we c...more

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Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, ad...more

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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know ve...more

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In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.

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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

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When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportuniti...more