torn asunder. There is the kingdom of the preached word of God, and there is the kingdom of the sword. The kingdom of the Church, and the kingdom of the world. The realm of the spiritual office, and the realm of secular government. The sword can never bring about the unity of the Church and of the faith. Preaching can never govern nations. But the

There is no clearer indication of the idolization of death than when a period claims to be building for eternity and yet life has no value in this period, or when big words are spoken of a new man, of a new world and of a new society which is to be ushered in, and yet all that is new is the

The will of God is not a system of rules which is established from the outset; it is something new and different in each different situation in life, and for this reason a man must ever anew examine what the will of God may be.

This beatitude puts those Christians entirely in the wrong who, in their mistaken anxiety to act rightly, seek to avoid any suffering for the sake of a just, good and true cause, because, as they maintain, they could with a clear conscience suffer only an explicit profession of faith in Christ;

Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge. What God had given man to be, man now desired to be through

There are two kingdoms which so long as the world continues, must neither be mixed together nor yet be

Now are tied, and alone and fainting, you see where your work ends. Yet you are confident still, and gladly commit what is rightful Into a stronger hand, and say that you are contented. You were free from a moment of bliss, then you yielded your freedom Into the hand of God, that he might perfect it in glory. Death Come now, highest of feasts on

Technology produces the masses and the masses demand an intensification of technology, yet at the same time technology itself is a matter for strong and mentally superior personalities. The engineer and the entrepreneur are not men

Shame implies both a positive and a negative attitude to man’s disunion, and that is why man lives between covering and discovering, between self-concealment and self-revelation, between solitude and fellowship. This means that in his positive attitude to his disunion, that is to say in solitude, he may have a more intense experience of fellowship