True Christianity: The Portable New Century Edition, Volume 1

community of hell if love for ourselves or for the world was primary among all the things we love. After we have entered the spi ...

the caves I observed herds of evil people hideous in form. To each other, though, the people there looked attractive because of ...

As for goodwill in specific, it can be attached to any heretical faith— Socinian faith, faith in one’s own divine inspiration, J ...

order to be glorified by people. If you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites who love to pray standing in the synagogues ...

point of view, these people’s goodwill is like bread made out of ashes, a cake made out of fish scales, or a piece of fruit made ...

The pleasures in heaven, on the other hand, are the pleasure in loving our neighbor and the pleasure in loving God. [ 2 ] Since ...

love lay hidden like fire smoldering in a dry log still covered by bark. In some cases it lay hidden like coals burning under th ...

The second tablet covers all aspects of loving our neighbor. The first five of its commandments relate to our behavior, or what ...

granted the appearance that they do. When we freely do something good as if we were acting on our own, this goodness is attribut ...

brothers and sisters, they are liars. If they do not love their brothers and sisters, whom they see, how can they love God whom ...

they would pollute the sacred faith with their selfishness and cripple its effectiveness.” He said, “Doesn’t this follow our dog ...

Then I saw myself as being at sea on a ship that was being tossed between two rocky outcroppings. Since I was afraid that the sh ...

and sense of connection is called an instinct. But we have the same thing. In relation to our loved ones this is truly an instin ...

and hostels, and maintaining them with donations.I support my opinion as follows: These forms of benefit and aid are public. The ...

As his servants, the priests minister for him. Therefore I conclude that donations to priests and to church buildings count for ...

among people as they approach the Holy Supper. At that moment some people say to their friends, ‘Forgive the wrongs I have done, ...

[ 14 ] “It is not up to me to say whether the well-known examples of goodwill that you have just presented one after the other a ...

of their correction. This happens because the Lord is perfect justice and does what he does with perfect judgment. [ 16 ] “From ...

meetings (which we label as diversions) where people have verbal battles with each other. Their arguments sound this way from a ...

would. You say you receive it through hearing the Word, but how can the Word do any work on you if all you do is hear it? How ca ...