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The disciples are not allowed to do this.
Meditations on the Cross (1996)
Patient endurance of evil does not mean a recognition of its rights. That is sheer sentimentality, and Jesus will have nothing to do with it.
Discipleship (1937)
When holy scripture speaks of following Jesus, it proclaims that people are free from all human rules, from everything which presumes, burdens, or causes worry and torment of conscience.
Discipleship (1937)
The disciples realized that they too were his enemies, and that he had overcome them by his love. It is this that opens the disciple’s eyes, and enables him to see his enemy as a brother.
Discipleship (1937)
What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.
Meditations on the Cross (1996)
Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus.
Discipleship (1937)
But Jesus is the Christ who was rejected in his suffering.
Discipleship (1937)
By our enemies Jesus means those who are quite intractable and utterly unresponsive to our love.
Discipleship (1937)
By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which other are just as entitled to as we are.
Discipleship (1937)
Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.
Costly grace is the sanctuary of God; it has to be protected from the world, and not thrown to the dogs.
Costly Grace (1937)
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
An intellectual assent to that idea is held to be of itself sufficient to secure remission of sins.
Costly Grace (1937)
Love for the sinner is ominously close to love of the sin. But the love of Christ for the sinner in itself is the condemnation of sin.
Discipleship (1937)
Your Yes to God demands your No to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and the poor, to all godlessness and mocking of the holy.
Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion. How can we convince the world by our preaching of the passion when we shrink from that passion in our own lives?
Discipleship (1937)
Grace without price; grace without cost! The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.
Costly Grace (1937)
Should the church be trying to erect a spiritual reign of terror over people by threatening earthly and eternal punishment on its own authority and commanding everything a person must believe and do to be saved?
Discipleship (1937)
By refusing to pay back the enemy with his own coin, and preferring to suffer without resistance, the Christian exhibits the sinfulness of contumely and insult.
Discipleship (1937)
The sword wherewith they judge their brethren will fall upon their own heads. Instead of cutting themselves off from the brother as the just from the unjust, they find themselves cut off from Jesus.
Discipleship (1937)
Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected. … Suffering and being rejected are not the same.
Discipleship (1937)