"In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves."
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"Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it."
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"The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world."
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"The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer."
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"But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order."
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"Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy...He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone."
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"God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy."
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"A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor."
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"Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening."
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"Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?"
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"Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it."
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"That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die."
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"The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies"
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"Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share of suffering and rejection. But each has a different share: some God deems worthy of the highest form of suffering, and gives them the grace of martyrdom, while others he does not allow to be tempted above that which they are able to bear. But it is the one and the same cross in every case."
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"God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. . . . Our marriage must be a 'yes' to God's earth. It must strengthen our resolve to do and accomplish something on earth. I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too."
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"My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified."
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"Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech."
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"God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day."
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"If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it."
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"The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him."
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