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"The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others."
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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."


"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."


"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."


"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."


"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."


"Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure."


"A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality."
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"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."

"If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible."

"We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus."

"The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus' hands."

"Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living."

"While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task."

"Many persons seek community because they are afraid of loneliness...those who take refuge in community while fleeing from themselves are misuing it to indulge in empty talk and distraction, no matter how spiritual this idle talk and distraction may appear...it is precisely such misuse of community that creates deadly isolation of human beings."

"A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner."

"Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters."
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