“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”.It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.” “The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought that takes success for its standard.” 'In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity.“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”.We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.” “Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves.By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” “Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.'May we be enabled to say 'No' to sin and 'Yes' to the sinner.”.We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them.' God’s love for us is shown by the fact that God not only gives God’s Word but also lends us God’s ear. Just as our love for God begins with listening to God’s Word, the beginning of love for others is learning to listen to them. “The first service one owes to others in a community involves listening to them.“Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.”.this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.”

What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are not an ideal world, but the real world.

Quotes about listening to god