The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.
Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to his Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.
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 church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.
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.
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
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world
Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.
If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.
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.
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.
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.
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.
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