“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 other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.”
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“The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.”
― An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith
― An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith
“We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.”
― Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
― Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
“The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.”
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“The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.”
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