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I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in streng...more

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Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the...more

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After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.

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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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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

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...do we realize that this cheap grace has turned back upon us like a boomerang? The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of ...more

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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

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Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to his call: First obey, do the external works, let go...more

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The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

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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 ...more

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The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative personalities” springs frequently enough from a sp...more

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There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say. It is an impatient, inattentive listenin...more

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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' These men without possessions or power, these strangers on Earth, these sinners, these followe...more

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It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.

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Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjacks' wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown...more