It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.
It is infinitely easier to ...
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The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.
Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.
