...'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless! ' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety...

Karl Barth
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  1. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. - Unknown

  2. Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only be achieved by such means. The fact that man, for... - Thomas A. Edison

  3. We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. - Peter Kreeft

  4. Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company. - Benjamin Franklin Wade

  5. Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. - Alan W. Watts

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  1. The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary!...

  2. I haven't even read everything I wrote.

  3. ...'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless! ' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety...

  4. Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  5. Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

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