Nevertheless, it is the free grace of the resurrected One that now also goes after the individual, overcomes the doubter, and creates in him the Easter faith.
Events cast their shadows ahead; before a harsh winter, wild animals grow thicker fur, and the beaver puts on a thicker layer of fat. What kind of times and what sort of tasks can lie ahead for a generation that must think so harshly, even at such a young age, in order to survive?
Jesus goes on before to Jerusalem and to the cross, and they are filled with fear and amazement at the road he calls them to follow.
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.
Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.
It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.
The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
Only those who put tomorrow completely into God’s hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.
The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.
Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.
The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.