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"After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?"
"Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility."
"Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them."
"On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end - but for me, the beginning - of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp."
"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."
"The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world."
"Politics are not the task of a Christian."
"A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary."
"Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free"
"Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death."
"The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry."
"The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words."
"God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred."
"No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy."
"So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work."
"Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us."
"Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience."
"God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises."
"A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom."
"Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor."