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Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Deep Faith Religion
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
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God Ourselves Surrender
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
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Politics Power Responsibility
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Control Exercise Life
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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Freedom Hope Oneself Photograph Prison Wait
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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Evil Grace Judgement Love Spiritual
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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Death Simplicity Wound
[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
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God Man Philosophy Reality Religious
The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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Enemy Faith History Love Ourselves War
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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Emotional God Truth
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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Learning Light People Suffering
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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Love Marriage Yourself

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