"A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation."
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"Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words."
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"Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone."
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"Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness."
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"You can only learn what obedience is by obeying"
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"A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world."
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"Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable."
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"So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus."
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"When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly."
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"Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day."
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"Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor."
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"Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them."
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"God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past."
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"...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all."
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"God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives."
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"Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus."
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"Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe."
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"In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one."
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"Every call of Christ leads into death."
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"The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father."
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