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Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.
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This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.
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Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us. I
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We must be able to speak about our faith so that hands will be stretched out toward us faster than we can fill them.
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the brilliant balance of the gospel that Luther so persistently expounded - "We are saved by faith alone, but not by faith which is alone.
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[Boenhoeffer] had an extraordinarily even temperament, capable of ignoring anger, anxiety and discouragement. He seemed unable to despise anyone.
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Accomplishments should be on the lips of all
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If you take God and faith and morality out of the equation, everything inevitably falls apart.
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The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.
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Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.
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The only fight which is lost is that which we give up.
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By praying "his" prayers - the Psalms of the Old Testament, which Jesus prayed - we effectively piggyback on them all the way to heaven.
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The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide.
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It must be made quite clear - terrifying though it is - that we are immediately faced with the decision: National Socialist or Christian ...
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democracy without real patriotism moves toward the destruction of the ordered liberty bequeathed to us by the founders.
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It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation," he said. "Posterity will huzza for us."32
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so true is it that a gracious hand leads us in ways that we know not, and blesses us not only without, but even against, our plans and inclinations.
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Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.
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Moujiks. Right. What's a moujik?" the Tsar asked.
"Peasants, your majesty."
"Pheasants?"
"No! Peasants. — Eric Metaxas
"Peasants, your majesty."
"Pheasants?"
"No! Peasants. — Eric Metaxas
May he at the last bind us to his triumphal carriage so that, although in bonds oppressed, we may participate in his victory!
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To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God's purposes.
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Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
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Things you might want to talk about in such a group?
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He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.
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A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant.
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We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.
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It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.
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One day we shall know and see what today we believe; one day we shall hold a service together in eternity.
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Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.
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By the time Whitefield died in 1770, an inconceivable 80 percent of the population of the American colonies had heard him preach at least once.
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She firmly believes feminism to be anti-woman because it pressures women to become more like men. Everyone
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If I know something to be true, am I prepared to follow it even though it is contrary to what I want[?]
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How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence." -
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Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.
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Taken all together, it's difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world.
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Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
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Einstein himself said, You can speak of the ethical foundations of science, but you cannot speak of the scientific foundations of ethics.
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herding cats and shoveling smoke.
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It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
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Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.
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