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Freed by Our Bonds

We have not advanced very far in our spiritual lives if we have not encountered the basic paradox of freedom, to the effect that we are most free when ...


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The Paradox of Love

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no more hurt, but only more love.


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When Small Things Are Big

The day of small things can become the life of biggest and best things. A small word spoken at the right time may set a whole life straight. A gentle ...


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Christian Contradictions

A true Christian is a sign of contradiction--a living symbol of the Cross. He or she is a person who believes the unbelievable, bears the unbearable, ...


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When Down Is Up

In the movie The Poseidon Adventure, the ocean liner S.S. Poseidon is on the open sea when it hits a huge storm. Lights go out, smoke pours into rooms ...


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The Paradox of Courage

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.


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Newborn Babe

What a paradox that a babe in a manger should be called mighty! Yet even as a baby, Jesus Christ revealed power. His birth affected the heavens as that ...


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Upside-Down Vision

Why is it, the older one grows, the more topsy-turvy the wisdom of Christ appears; and yet the more it appears to be wisdom? He seems to be looking at ...


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Holy Contradictions

Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been ...


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Curious Alchemy

I can see that Jesus drew men and women into the Kingdom by promising them two things: first, trouble--hardship, danger; and second, joy. But what curious ...


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