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While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be...more

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A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their...more

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Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand-from the outset they must give up, as inappropria...more

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Due to some dim but irresistible notion of the way things are, it is simply not possible, out of order, not apprpriate to the situation at hand, if, w...more

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The basis of spiritual community is truth, the basis of emotional community is desire.The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly usele...more

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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can...more

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Therefore let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers' (Rom 13.1). The Christian must not be drawn to the bearers of high office; his calling...more

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Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be hi...more

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The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right...more

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It is not at all surprising that the disciples imagined that the law had been abrogated, when Jesus made promises like this. For these promises revers...more

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The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him,...more

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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

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The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use can...more

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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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Politics are not the task of a Christian.