"Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love."
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"If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word."
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"One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality."
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"Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain."
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"It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God."
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"Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person."
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"As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future."
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"If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?"
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"Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified."
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"It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren."
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"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."
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"When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh."
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"God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away."
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"The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist."
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"Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ."
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"A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt."
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"In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others."
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"The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision."
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"The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God."
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"Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue."
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