The church is the church only when it exists for others... The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
03733 – The Church Exists for Others
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03599 – All Aboard!
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
03447 – Sing It!
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words. from Life Together
03418 – Celebrating Christmas Correctly?
Who will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, all honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism... beside the manger.
03229 – The Heart Cannot Pray by Itself
But it is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself. For then we confuse wishes, hopes, sighs, laments, rejoicing--all of which the heart can do by itself--with prayer. And we confuse heaven and earth, human...
02819 – Your “Yes” Requires Your “No”
Your "yes" to God requires your "no" to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and poor.
02754 – Judging Others Makes Us Blind
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. from The Cost of Discipleship
02734 – The Day will Come
The day will come...when people will once more be called to speak the word of God in such a way that the world is changed and renewed. It will be in a new language, perhaps quite nonreligious language, but liberating and redeeming like Jesus's language, so that people...
02560 – A Picture of Advent
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes--and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
02484 – Bandaging Wounds is Not Enough
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice; we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.