And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
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Just as an acorn is perfected when it grows into a mature oak, how do we obtain our perfection or chief end? For what purpose were we created and to what end do we necessarily aspire?
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“Only when we love without regard to the identity of the beloved can we ever waive retribution and truly love our enemies.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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We affirm as our Lord’s principle and standard of marriage a life-long and indissoluble union, for better or worse, of one man with one woman, to the exclusion of all others on either side, and call all Christians to maintain and bear witness to this standard.
Resolution 67, 1920 Lambeth Conference.
Sermon on the Mount – Week 2(b) – Matt. 5:21-37 Read More »
“In the perfect sense, forgiveness is not reconciliation when forgiveness is asked for; but it is reconciliation to need to forgive beforehand long before the other is person is perhaps thinking of seeking forgiveness.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
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We will find in Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, the highest morals and the perfect standard of the Christian life. – St. Augustine
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Even though the Beloved breaks off the relationship or fails to reciprocate the love, so long as the Lover continues to love, the love remains.
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It is only an illusion to imagine that one himself has forgiveness, although one is slack in forgiving others.
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Only when we presuppose the existence of love in the other do we have the foundation in which to build up the love in the other.
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