“Being a Christian means essentially changing over from being for oneself to being for one another....Accordingly the basic Christian decision signifies the assent to being a Christian, the abandonment of self-centeredness and accession to Jesus Christ’s existence with it’s concentration on the whole. The same thing is meant by the way of the cross, which does not indicate a private devotion at all but is in harmony with the basic idea that man, leaving behind the privateness and peace of his ‘I’, departs from himself in order by this frustration of his ‘I’ to follow the crucified Christ and exist for others.....’Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit (John 12:24).’ Even on the cosmic plane the law holds good that life comes only through death, through loss of self.” -Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity “…for the LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts.” -1 Chronicles 28:9
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