What believers must do is to view reality from a transcendent perspective.
Rather than staggering along as reality leads us, we should pause for a moment and ask ourselves whether this is God's will for our lives.
The current world situation is a transformed Egypt.
The Pharaohs of our time tell those who grumble about hardship that they are comfortable and are talking nonsense.
A good writer is someone who tears down the curtain that covers people's eyes and lets them see reality straight.
Faith is no different.
---From "The Dignity of an Illegible Son"

Those who are eliminated from the fierce competition and become losers will have regrets in their hearts, but those who voluntarily take the path of losers will find freedom in their hearts.
It's important to note that while not everyone can live that way, some choose to do so.
He is creating a small crack in the iron wall of capital, built on competition and desire.
Perhaps those who embody the fact that “another life is possible” are worthy of the nickname given to the apostles in the early church.
'The one who caused chaos in the world.'
---From "The Ability to Empathize with Others"

Jesus dreamed of the kingdom of God in the midst of a world dominated by the Roman Empire.
A world divided between rulers and ruled, a world where violence and exploitation were the order of the day, was not a world that pleased God.
When the existing order threatens to suffocate life, the world progresses little by little through those who dream of a new world and sweat to open it.
We are the ones invited to this path of progress.
The cross is both a trial and a glory given to those who choose that path.
Is the foundation of faith you stand on now solid?
---From "The Basis of Our Existence"

Jesus also approached those who were suffering under the rule of the Roman Empire.
You did not consider the pain of the times created by the contradictions of the system as unrelated to you.
By staying with them, touching their bodies, and sharing food with them, Jesus began a new world.
It is the kingdom of God.
If someone is dying, suffering, or gradually becoming inhumane under a flawed or mismanaged system, those who believe in God cannot help but strive to change such a world.
Because we are not believers in capitalism, but rather people who look forward to a world ruled by God.

---From “A Life Leading to True Freedom”

The word for 'truth' in Greek is 'aretheia'.
This word contains the word 'lethe' which means forgetfulness.
Truth is what breaks oblivion and thus reveals the truth.
The world hates light because it is darkness.
But the moment light shines on the world, darkness is sure to disappear.
There is no lie that can overcome the truth.
However, only those who are prepared to bear the cross can firmly hold on to the truth.
This season asks us how we will live.
We must choose whether to live as an average believer, compromising with the world to some extent, or to become someone who firmly holds onto the truth, even at the risk of suffering.
I hope that we can become strong enough to easily walk the steep uphill road from suffering to resurrection.
I, too, will not forget my duty as a pilgrim and will advance towards the center, step by step.
I hope to see you on that road.
---From "Practice of Saying Goodbye to Familiar Things"

The church is often referred to as a community.
The word 'community' is said to be a combination of 'com' meaning 'together' and 'munus' meaning 'gift'.
A community is a gathering of people who are gifts to one another.
Anyone who wants to be a gift to someone must respect the tastes and circumstances of the person in front of them.
Those who are present to us now are not mindless objects or tools, but other present beings with their own thoughts.
Therefore, those who wish to have a meaningful relationship with him must accept him as a unique being.
The Apostle Paul's imagination is truly remarkable when he refers to the church as "the body of Christ."
The church is an organism.
An organism is a kind of communal life.
To save you and enrich you is the way I live.
---From "Shaking Off Fear"

God is fair, but there is no fairness in the world.
Some people are born healthy, while others are born sickly.
Some people are smart and some aren't.
While some people are well-liked by everyone because of their looks, others are discriminated against because of their looks.
The history of mankind is one of turning differences into discrimination.
There may be no difference at all, but discrimination is evil.
God is very concerned about those who live oppressed in a world where discrimination is the norm.
Someone said that the characteristic feature of the law is 'preferential concern for the poor.'
The law was given to narrow the gap that the world has created between people.
---From “A World Built on the Foundation of Justice and Righteousness”

A church that is uncomfortable with Jesus' teachings and life, a church that forces silence on Jesus, is no longer a true church of Christ.
People find following Jesus difficult, so they push Him away and worship Him.
Worship is easy.
You don't have to change your life.
In one way or another, it is a lonely time for Jesus.
In his poem “Jesus of Seoul,” poet Jeong Ho-seung sang, “Every day, wild grasses are stabbed by human swords and fall, and a single human flower, like a flower of the grass, blooms and falls. To see humanity become more beautiful, Jesus, drenched in winter rain, leans against the wall of the Seodaemun Detention Center and cries.”
I want to be someone who makes Jesus not lonely.
---From "Don't Leave Jesus Lonely"

We tend to live our religious lives within the limits of our plausible self-identity.
There is a story that appears in Hasidic stories.
A disciple asks the rabbi:
“Why does the Torah tell us, ‘Place these words upon your heart’? Why doesn’t it tell us to place these holy words in our hearts?” The rabbi says that we cannot place the words in our hearts because our hearts are closed.
“Therefore we put it at the top of our minds.
And the Word stays there until one day when the heart breaks, it falls into it” (Parker J.
Palmer, At the Edge of Everything, Glahangari, p.
217).
Parker Palmer says that some people's hearts are broken and fragmented, while others are broken and opened.
The mystery of faith lies right here.
Can anyone who has never despaired of himself understand the cross? Ultimate despair is often the gateway to grace.

---From "A Tiger Is Not a Donkey"